by Eileen | May 23, 2018 | chile, food and drink, haha, language, photography, spanish, travel, travel writing
“My feet look like meat-filled pastries,” said C, as she looked up at her legs, which were up on the wall as she laid on the bed, an L-shape familiar to many cyclists and athletes in general, especially those who are prone to swelling or build up of lactic...
by Eileen | Jan 15, 2017 | chile, feria, food, food and drink, travel
After a truly mind-bending trip to Aysén, the far, lost south of Chile (yes, again, yes, I am that lucky), on the Carretera Austral, way down to Chile Chico, where burgeoning fruit trees literally line the streets, but vegetables are harder to come by for...
by Eileen | Jun 8, 2015 | nostalgia, photography, spanish, travel, Uncategorized
It took me a long time to find it, the best souvenir of a trip to Madrid. I don’t eat ham, and I don’t believe it travels particularly well. I couldn’t possibly contain the energy and giganticness and overtouristed and hot and sweaty and perfect...
by Eileen | Sep 4, 2013 | meta, travel, travel writing, Uncategorized
Long ago, when I started this blog as a place for me to get published when no one would give me the time of day, I got kind of lumped in with a whole bunch of “travel blogs,” journals of people who were on the road. And by lumped in, I mean linked to and...
by Eileen | Feb 12, 2013 | memoir, meta, travel
What you think at 20 isn’t the same as what you think at 40, or at 60. This is what one of the many seniors or near-seniors said to me as we were leaving the hotel in Panama City, after spending five days together on an all-canal-all-the-time tour. And...
