y Travel Blog

We were somewhere on the Kings Canyon Scenic Byway, dropping 4,000 feet into a canyon that kept narrowing, the Kings River appearing below us like a turquoise thread, when 14 year old Savannah who had been looking out the window turned to me and said, “You know. I’m kinda glad my phone fell down the toilet because now I’m paying attention more.”

Thank goodness for s...

There’s a table on the edge of a hill in Gornje Cerovo in Slovenia where the vineyards fall away in front of you and keep going until they turn into Italy. On a clear evening you can follow them all the way to a thin silver line of the Adriatic. We sat at that table for hours.

Amazing local restaurant in Goriška Brda

The church of St Nicholas stands right beside ...

There’s a stretch of Mount Triglav, maybe 50 meters below a small wooden hut, where I gripped a rock face with both hands and swore at it.

I was scared in a way I don’t usually get scared. Angry too, which surprised me more. We’d been scrambling for what felt like a very long time across rock that fell away on both sides, and my body had quietly decided it was finis...

I sat in a 10°C river for 10 minutes and came out grinning.

That was the afternoon after a morning of jumping off canyon walls and rappelling down a 50-meter waterfall on a rope. By lunch I was floating in water the color of a tropical beach, cold to the bone, in the shadow of the Julian Alps, happier than I’d been in a long time.

That’s the thing abo...

I lost a day in Ljubljana before I ever got there.

Cancelled flight out of Raleigh, then a delayed one, then an overnight reroute through London that ate the extra day I’d deliberately built into the front of the trip. My airport shuttle broke down on the way in, and we sat waiting for a replacement. I finally reached the hotel mid-afternoon with two days of travel ...