Aging on the Run: Travel Blog Alphabetical list by country
In October 2023, my spouse and I retired and sold our house in Minneapolis, MN. USA. Since then, we have been traveling the world. I write a blog about each place, with a historian’s eye and an internationalist lens, wondering how memory can liberate the present.
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Minnesota. Joy and Sorrow In One Cup.
Joy and sorrow come in one cup. It is confusing when they swim together. Sometimes the mixture is too powerful for us to handle. Especially when a loved one dies. Especially a young one. Especially suicide.
Punta Arenas, Chile: Hope Lies in the Long View
From the Río Bravo to the Straits of Magellan, the Great Cemi, riding high astride a condor, has scattered the seeds of the new América across the romantic nations of the continent and the suffering...
Transportation = Eating in Nuestra America
Water and food. When I think of the hierarchy of human needs, these two come to mind. Traveling in Latin America since November has got me thinking about how transportation...
Seeing Peru through Prisms, in the Winter of ’26
It is our duty not to ignore our national reality, but we also have a duty not to ignore the global reality. José Mariátegui In Lima, the temperature in January is a delightful mid-70s—yet I...
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In October 2023, my spouse and I sold our house in Minneapolis, MN. USA. Since then, we have been traveling the world. I write a blog about each place, with a historian’s eye and an internationalist lens, wondering how memory can liberate the present.
Minnesota. Joy and Sorrow In One Cup.
Joy and sorrow come in one cup. It is confusing when they swim together. Sometimes the mixture is too powerful for us to handle. Especially when a loved one dies. Especially a young one. Especially suicide.
Punta Arenas, Chile: Hope Lies in the Long View
From the Río Bravo to the Straits of Magellan, the Great Cemi, riding high astride a condor, has scattered the seeds of the new América across the romantic nations of the continent and the suffering...
Transportation = Eating in Nuestra America
Water and food. When I think of the hierarchy of human needs, these two come to mind. Traveling in Latin America since November has got me thinking about how transportation...
Seeing Peru through Prisms, in the Winter of ’26
It is our duty not to ignore our national reality, but we also have a duty not to ignore the global reality. José Mariátegui In Lima, the temperature in January is a delightful mid-70s—yet I...