Highs and Lows of a Traveling Family

You open up a group email on your iPad and notice that one of the addressees is named “But Face,” … More

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Ethiopians call foreigners faranji, which our local guide tells us means “French” in Amharic. In rural Southern Ethiopia, where cars … More

Planes, Trains, Cars, and Buses  

In the first five months of a ten-month trip around the world with my husband and kids, we’ve taken nineteen … More

Stuck With Each Other

Before we left the United States, I read many blogs of other traveling families who had taken similar trips, and … More

Look at Me — Dancing in the Townships!

As I sat between the kids in the backseat of our rental car, parked on the main street of the … More

The Mighty Snow Leopards, Part 2

Our first night at the Hudad, we had dinner around a bonfire on the bluff with the mountains spread out … More

The Mighty Snow Leopards, Part 1.

One Saturday morning, the summer before last, I proposed taking a hike to our kids, Esme, who was seven at … More

We’re Not in Brooklyn Anymore

Our arrival in Ethiopia, our first stop in our trip around the world, did not get off to an auspicious … More

Stranger in a Strange Land

We leave for our first stop, Ethiopia, in one week. Yikes! The UPS delivery man has been coming twice a … More