This is part of a series from our recent travel to Europe in June/July 2026. There’s a particular kind of hot that doesn’t announce itself with drama. It just settles in, heavy and still, and by mid-morning you’ve made a quiet agreement with the day that nothing ambitious is going […]
This is part of a series from our recent travel to Europe in June/July 2026. There are mornings when you wake up with somewhere to be, and it changes everything about how the day feels. This was one of them. Michele was graduating. We took our time over breakfast, the […]
This is part of a series from our recent travel to Europe in June/July 2026. There’s something nice about a morning with no agenda. Chris was up early, early enough to slip out and come back with coffee and pastries before I’d properly surfaced, and for a while we just […]
This is part of a series from our recent travel to Europe in June/July 2026. We arrived at our hotel tired, a little sticky, and carrying the particular fog that comes with overnight travel. Berlin was already awake and already hot. Europe is in the grip of an intense heat […]
This is part of a series from our recent travel to Europe in June/July 2026. Every great trip begins with a story, and ours began before we even left the city. We’d planned a 9 AM departure from the house; enough time to get to Louis Armstrong International without the […]
Nobody tells you that traveling as a couple gets easier and harder at the same time. Easier because you stop auditioning. Early trips carry a kind of low-grade pressure — you want everything to go well, you’re still figuring out who the other person is when things don’t go to […]