In a visit to another of the world’s lovely coffee houses, we catch the proprietress off-guard with one of life’s important questions.
AN ARTIST IN KYOTO
Never have we witnessed more love and attention put into a single cup of coffee. Twenty-five years ago, Ishihara transformed his home into a small coffee shop on an unassuming block far off the beaten path in Kyoto. His clientele is almost one-hundred percent regulars. Six days a week, he makes between fifty and sixty […]
NEW FRIENDS ALL OVER THE WORLD
What continues to astound us is how we make new friends nearly every place we go. Some are through mutual friends, some are through chance encounters, all are enriching our journey incredibly. In the first 60 nights of travel, we have had dinner with other people roughly 48 times. Here is just a small sampling […]
SHE JUST BREATHES
We all measure our lives in years, decades, generations. What if you had to measure your life in months, weeks, days? What would you do? This movie is about Kelly, our former nanny, our cherished friend, a truly remarkable and inspiring person. Please take just a few minutes and watch.
ONE MINUTE TO RENDEZVOUS AT THE SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE
We think the (especially lengthy) title just about says it all. Enjoy your day.
FITZROY, A LOVE SONG
When we were living in Australia a few years back, we regretted that we never made it down to Melbourne. We were told it’s the most European of the cities in Australia (kind of true), and we were told it’s a “grown-up city, not really for kids” (kind of false). What we weren’t told about […]
THIS IS WHAT TOMORROW LOOKS LIKE
It’s September 9th in Los Angeles, but it’s September 10th in Australia. Here is a sneak preview of tomorrow. On an overnight train from Sydney to Melbourne, we woke up before dawn — still jet-lagged from the flight from South America. The assignment for each of us was to write a short poem with the […]
ECUADORIAN DAYDREAM
When we first conceived of taking a trip around the world, we dreamed that we might make new friends in the places we visited. Perhaps these new friends would have children the same age as ours, maybe they might invite us to their house or their farm, maybe we would ride horses with them or […]
THE KEY TO HAPPINESS: ECUADOR
As we travel around the world, we have twenty questions that we’ll be asking wherever we go, comparing and contrasting different cultures and different people. This is the first installment in our Twenty Questions series. As you can see, we started with a real softball.Okay, here’s the thing: We only have ten of our twenty […]