Explore new places. Go for a run. Live adventurously.
I began writing this piece last summer, when I returned to Seattle for a few days after having been in Texas over a year. Everyone who has moved between cities has a story, or at least a collection of observations. These are mine. - After four hours in the air, I make my way towards… Continue reading on moving across the country & outgrowing a city
On the short flight from Houston to Mexico City, I had ODESZA's La Ciudad on repeat. To me, it was apt- dreamy, descriptive of a journey. Artistic. Yet one of the things that was going to be most clearly brought to my attention on this trip was how different our perceptions of a place can… Continue reading Ciudad de México
There are moments in life that are heavy with anticipation. In these moments it becomes difficult to live immediately in the present. You are within hours, minutes of something that you've looked forward to with excitement, joy... possibly dread, but at any rate you have planned and prepared for it and it's here now. You… Continue reading in the hours before
In Madrid, morning eases in slow, lazy. Even coming into the country is easy- no one so much as glances at my passport, and I waltz out of the airport with only the regret that there is no stamp to commemorate my arrival here in this new place. The first thing I notice is the… Continue reading Madrid in November
When I mentioned I might spend an afternoon in Segovia, people either asked me if that was the movie from "The Princess Diaries" (I Googled and that one's Genovia), or they were super excited and their eyes would light up telling me I should definitely visit. Segovia is an absolute stunner of a place about… Continue reading a day in Segovia
