It seems like just yesterday we wrote about the insanity that was 2013. To create balance in the universe, 2014 has been THE YEAR OF STAYING PUT. At least by our standards. We visited the Canadian Rockies, Alaska, Hawaii, and Portland. And staying put has its own rewards: like spending time with family and reconnecting with old…
Category: Years in Review
Memorable Foods, Memorable Meals: 2013
We spent about half of 2013 in the South Pacific, a good deal of the rest of it in the North Atlantic, and then a few months of autumn in coastal Italy. Such an itinerary bodes well for the seafood lover. 2013 was characterized by non-stop access to freshly plucked fruits de mer and still-twitching…
They Live Deeply, These Vagabonds: 2013 in Review
2013 was an epic year of traveling that kicked off in Antarctica, and included five different continents. Technically speaking with stopovers and all, we visited all 7 continents in the span of one year.I took about 17,000 photos in 2013. This is our first sunrise of the year in Antarctica, at 2AM on Jan 1….
Year in Review: A Superlative List
Beer of the Year With twelve months of beer drinking under our belts this year, this was a surprisingly easy decision. It would be pretty hard to top the experience of drinking the new beer brewed by Schlenkerla, the Eiche (oak) smoked doppelbock. We got to try it three ways: straight from the tanks in…
Love and Barley 