Terrific first day in India! We spent the day exploring Old Delhi, which pretty much embodies the term “sensory overload”. It was crowded and noisy and dirty and hot — and so very fascinating to experience. There’s more to say, but jet lag and an early flight to Udaipur weigh in favor of sleep. So […]

Twenty-two hours of travel is all it takes to go from Seattle to New Delhi. We stepped off the plane into warm, muggy air full of smoke and were greeted by an exuberant welcome from giant “namaste” hands on the wall. Customs was a breeze (we did the legwork for visas online ahead of time) […]

Holy cow, this year’s big trip is here already — we’re off to explore the Subcontinent! Getting there is part of the adventure. We left Friday morning and after 14.5 hours in the air, we touched down in Dubai.  It’s super impressive to see this city that has basically been built from scratch in only […]

Ringing in the New Year in style from the Big Apple. Here’s to 2016!

Here’s what today’s post should have said: Lady’s here!  We have tickets to the PNB’s new production of The Nutcracker on Sunday, so she took the train up a few days early to play in Seattle.  I picked her up a little after 8pm, we had a tasty dinner of Beecher’s mac&cheese, and then headed off to […]

Vancouver is a fun and pretty city (more on that later), and it’s airport now ranks near the top in term of painless/efficient security experience.  See you in Berlin!

Being a twin is the best thing ever.  For me, it has meant having one of the smartest, funnest, most talented girls I know in my life since the very beginning.  I was about to say that she’s one of my best friends, but that’s not quite right — the bond we have is better, […]

We may have spent most of the day eating, but that doesn’t mean we didn’t see anything else.  Here are the highlights: SUBWAYThe Seoul subway is impossibly clean and surprisingly easy to navigate, hindered only by the fact that every single map seems to be oriented differently with respect to North.  Keeps you on your […]

One of the great things about having cool friends is being introduced to the music they like. For example, tonight I went with Amy to see the Carolina Chocolate Drops in concert at the 9:30 Club. I’d never heard of them (despite the fact that they won a Grammy in 2012), but Amy had seen them […]

More to come. For now, behold: