Hi y’alls, and Happy New Year! Yeah… I’m fashionably late for 2014. I was all excited to regale you with One Thousand and One Nights-style tales from Morocco, but my anal-retentiveness refused to let me post anything for 2014 without formally wrapping up last year’s adventures. Mine is a militant and unforgiving super-ego. So I hit […]
**Where are my manners? I never related Part Two of our extra-long layover in the beautiful city of Amsterdam! Hopefully absence has made the heart grow fonder.** Day #11,221: When I mentioned we were stopping in Amsterdam for a 2-day layover, two different people independently told us to take our picture with the “Amsterdam” sign. […]
Day #11,220: I always pictured nighttime in Amsterdam to be the breeding grounds of some very bad behavior. Evenings bathed in harsh red light, neon “XXX” signs flickering above, the air reeking of seediness (read: stale weed). But somehow in my Hangover-Part-Four-style imaginings of Amsterdam, I had forgotten that Mr. M & I are not […]
This year we’re spending New Years with brother-in-law B, soon-to-be-sister LP, Mr. M’s cousin Bash, and Bash’s lovely girlfriend Jess. And the six of us have somehow decided that 2013 should be welcomed in Lisbon, Portugal! While Portugal somehow never made my list of Top 100 Places to See (no sugar-coating that one), I’m still […]