Michelle and I flew into Oslo last week with a backpack stuffed with pre-purchased pasta mix, ramen, and oats, and very few plans. Finding ourselves in Norway, one of the most expensive (and safest) countries on earth, we knew there was only one way we could travel: hitchhiking. We splurged on a pastry at 7-11 […]
“It feels like someone sang a song, and that song turned into stone, and that stone became a city,” I said, as we walked out of a heavy stone church into the chalky morning light of Salzburg, Austria. I still carried the feel of the inside of the church within my shoulders — the empty […]
I am sitting on a bus as it eases its way through the countryside between Prague and Salzburg, Austria. We pass a thick green pond; yellow leaves catch a corridor of sunlight as they spiral down. At the front of the bus 11 red analog lines trap the time – 9:17 am. Prague has caught […]
