On a late summer evening in July 2007, on the pier in Huntington Beach, California, Tim and I met for the very first time. Eleven years later, and 5,000 miles away, we walked hand in hand on a very different beach, two very different people. Over the past decade Tim and I have weathered many…
A quick tour of London: Hyde park… and two…police stations?
Staring down at the green marble countertop feeling the cool air conditioned air waft through the slatted glass window in front of me, listening to the police sergeant one-finger type a report, I thought… this is really not where I pictured my day going. I woke early Sunday morning SUPER excited for the vintage meet…
Missing Target and learning to shop in the UK
I saw a shirt today that said “Can’t be trusted along in Target,” and it made me giggle…and then it made me a little sad. For me, a Target run was at least a weekly occurrence if not multiple times a week when we lived in Corona. With three Targets within a fifteen minute drive,…
La Cinque Terra and La Spezia in 48 hours
If my 12 hour journey to La Spezia earlier this month (documented here) was a chaotic mess filled with one stressor after another, my 48 hours in La Spezia and the villages of Cinque Terra (and even a few hours in Bologna) were the exact opposite. Most of my weekend was filled with warm sunshine,…
Two Tickets to Italy…on Ryan Air…Via Stansted Airport
This weekend we made an amazing whirlwind trip to Italy to see Cinque Terra (the famed five beach cities that everyone loves to take photos of) and our dear swing dance friend, Saskia who was visiting from California. But this will have to be two separate blogs. Because I am sure I could write an…
Two Tickets… to Two Castles
Recently, we took our very first day trip with RAF Alconbury’s ITT to Bodiam and Scotney Castles. (For those of you who don’t know, ITT is the Information, Tickets and Tours office located on any American military base. They offer great trips for different activities and usually at a great discount to what you’d get…
Two kayaks on the local river
Here at RAF Alconbury (RAFA) we’re super blessed to have a great Outdoor Recreation office that offers several things for us to do. For not much money we can do anything from weekend trips like white water rafting, hiking on Hadrian’s Wall, and exploring North Wales to day/evening excursions like rock climbing, indoor climbing, archery…
Two tickets…to London
This past Sunday, we spent an deceptively warm day in London. Since London is so huge and we didn’t even know where to start, we decided to take it on the way you’d eat an elephant, one bite at a time. I knew I would be overwhelmed by the sheer size of the city, the…
Two Tickets… to Hemswell Antiques
This past Sunday we got the wonderful opportunity to visit the Hemswell Antique Center in rural Lincolnshire. It was a solid 90 minutes of freeway driving from our temporary home on the AF base out here, but it wasn’t a terrible drive. Forewarned that this was the largest antique center in Europe, I knew it…
Two Tickets…to a luggage auction?
With the most anticipated wedding since Kate and William’s taking place today, and our expat wings barely stretched in the slightest, we decided to not really leave base today. While we’re excited to explore our new home, we weren’t exactly excited about fighting crowds, experiencing crazy security measures and risking an anxiety attack on my…
Fernweh Findings 