by jo | Apr 21, 2015 | Travel
We’re taking a detour from the normal posts for a week, because sometimes, I love to play tour guide and help people find good stuff! Sometimes I travel for fun, and sometimes because of how my life has gone, I get to travel for school, business, etc as well. I...
by jo | Dec 23, 2014 | Everyday Stories, Jesus Time, Travel
If I’m honest — which I am — homesickness is the cause of my current wandering-life phase. I’ve been saying that I’m searching for a place that feels like home. I didn’t know of any that still existed for me until one night not too...
by jo | Dec 9, 2014 | Everyday Stories, Travel
photo credit: [phil h] via photopin cc “Don’t tell them that you’ll keep in touch,” she said to us. “Because you won’t.” One of the school administration was talking to the group of 5 of us from the US who were brand new to the school and were there for the semester...
by jo | Nov 11, 2014 | Everyday Stories, Travel
Last Sunday marked 25 years since the Berlin wall fell. But in reality, it didn’t just fall. That’s passive. It was torn down. With bare hands. It was pulled to the ground. And for the first time since before Hitlers rule, Germany was again a united...
by jo | Sep 16, 2014 | Everyday Stories, People I meet, Travel
I was at the post office. It was 4:40 and I needed to mail a stack of about 7 envelopes all registered mail (meaning, apparently, that I have to fill out a form for each of the already-addressed envelopes with to-from info as well as estimated value included inside,...