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Hello from California!
Hi Friends, I hope you’ve had a good weekend. Economist husband and I are so enjoying our time away from the city. Here are a few snapshots – more to follow, I promise. It’s been so refreshing for us to … Continue reading
Breakfast in Moscow Takes a Break
Hello friends! Just a quick note to let you know that blog updates will be more erratic for the rest of September and October. I am taking a long vacation to visit family and friends in the U.S. My plan … Continue reading
8-Day Trip to San Francisco!
It’s been so long since economist husband and I have had a vacation together, just the two of us. We finally booked tickets to go visit my family in the U.S. this fall, and then we decided, why not go … Continue reading
Moscow Weekends (and how to rest)
How do you usually spend your weekends? For economist husband and I, with our ever-shifting work schedules, weekends off together are rarer than we’d like them to be. At the moment we average between one and two weekends off of … Continue reading
Breakfast in NYC
We LOVE New York. I mean, Minnesota was great. Cold, clean, quiet, friendly, lots of family and friends. But New York writes itself. The buzz, the hurry, the culture that blinks out at you everywhere you look like a neon … Continue reading
Minnesota Tourist
Economist husband and I just bought plane tickets to Minnesota! For three weeks! For Christmas! It’s always exciting to buy plane tickets – it feels like opening a high-up window and getting a breath of fresh air. You taste a … Continue reading
Notes From the Road: Venice
We love Venice! Green canal lapping at the wall just out the filmy white curtain at our hotel window. White-haired man slowly puttering the day’s catch home in his green-carpeted boat, and young man – tan with gold rings and … Continue reading
Paris Fashion
There were lots of stereotypes about Paris I didn’t expect to be true, but actually, most of them were. Paris at night along the Seine WAS romantic, people were wearing stripes, the waiters were rude, and we even saw mimes. … Continue reading
Notes From the Road: Paris
Paris was, in a word, overwhelming. We only had four days here, and wanted to take in as much as we could. Stepping off the night train from hot, sunny Italy, Paris greeted us with a rush of cool air, … Continue reading
Notes from the Road: Bologna
So relaxed, sitting here in a slightly sticky black plastic chairs outside the gelateria, carved into one of Bologna’s long orange and red colored porticoes. If the city had a color, it would be red. If it had a scent, … Continue reading
