Jul 19, 2014 | travel & adventure
I’ve never been on a train before, unless you count Tweetsie Railroad when I was three. So the trip across Spain via high speed rail was a thrilling one for me. I loved the three hours spent looking at the Spanish countryside–which, I have to say, did not...
Jul 18, 2014 | travel & adventure
We took a tour via a rooftop bus, an adventure that was both hot and informative. The main stop was Gaudi’s jaw-dropping La Sagrada Familia, noted in Lonely Planet as “a symphony of religious devotion.” Not an understatement. Begun in 1882 and still...
Jul 17, 2014 | travel & adventure
Eliza’s been here seven weeks and made some incredible friends. How wonderful for me that I got to meet four of them this afternoon, walking together through Naked Man Park, laughing and toasting over Barcelona beers. How immediately I loved these...
Jul 15, 2014 | travel & adventure
I couldn’t sleep on the plane I was so excited to land in Barcelona. Who doesn’t dream of a getaway to Spain? But for me there was more. I knew this would happen the moment Eliza got out of class and made her way to Placa de Catalunya, where...
Jul 14, 2014 | travel & adventure
We’re going to retrieve Eliza, Tim and I, to bring back from Barcelona my sweet college Senior. The fact that she didn’t need bringing is irrelevant; would you pass up this great excuse to traipse around Spain? I’ve made a commitment to stand down a...
Mar 27, 2014 | travel & adventure
She’s tracing her roots is how my husband describes it when he tells people about the trip we took last weekend, back to my beloved Southwest Virginia. And while I wasn’t thinking of it that way, exactly, I suppose it is a rather accurate description. It...
