Aging on the Run: Travel Blog
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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Cuatro Cuerpos: Cádiz, Spain
"Check in with your bodies: physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual," the online yoga instructor said. Pain radiated down my legs. Sciatica. My mental body divided our journey into five parts,...
Against Forgetting? Cádiz, Spain.
One of the books I gave away when we started this journey was Carolyn Forché’s Against Forgetting: Twentieth Century Poetry of Witness. I treasured this collection that recorded humanity’s...
Spain to Tangier, Morocco
In Cádiz, we took a bus to Tarifa, Spain, where the Mediterranean and Atlantic meet, and a ferry to Tangier, Morocco. In Tarifa, we could see Africa across the water. There was a small police...
Sardines and Seagulls. Algarve, Portugal
Overnight flight out of Boston to Cape Verde and then Lisbon. Flight attendants served tabouli salad, bread and butter, meat, potatoes, broccoli, red cake, coffee, and cookies. We ate this...
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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.
Cuatro Cuerpos: Cádiz, Spain
"Check in with your bodies: physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual," the online yoga instructor said. Pain radiated down my legs. Sciatica. My mental body divided our journey into five parts,...
Against Forgetting? Cádiz, Spain.
One of the books I gave away when we started this journey was Carolyn Forché’s Against Forgetting: Twentieth Century Poetry of Witness. I treasured this collection that recorded humanity’s...
Spain to Tangier, Morocco
In Cádiz, we took a bus to Tarifa, Spain, where the Mediterranean and Atlantic meet, and a ferry to Tangier, Morocco. In Tarifa, we could see Africa across the water. There was a small police...
Sardines and Seagulls. Algarve, Portugal
Overnight flight out of Boston to Cape Verde and then Lisbon. Flight attendants served tabouli salad, bread and butter, meat, potatoes, broccoli, red cake, coffee, and cookies. We ate this...