Trav's Travels

This year the days often started the same way: taking Lily to Kita (kindergarten). While she spent her mornings there, I taught English, wor...

This year was no walk in the park. In fact, some parts were outright nightmarish. Our daughter, Lily, had a couple fevers and infections tha...

2021 was an intense year full of stressful, exciting, and sad experiences. I started a German Ausbildung (apprenticeship), we a had a death ...

One really sad thing about the pandemic for us personally was that my family didn't get to come to our wedding . We just weren't pre...

My latest visit back to the States was somewhat bittersweet. It was lucky that I even could go back considering that COVID-19 was already...

November brought me back into travel mode. Not only did I get back to the States for the first time since my return to Europe, but I also ...

The last month before my big move to Europe was pretty nice. I spent a lot of time with friends and family, beefed up my bank account a b...

As I mentioned in my San Diego post , my trip to California was mainly for the purpose of preparing for my future in Germany. The emi...

Another benefit of being in California is that a lot of my family lives there. In fact, it was pretty much just my parents who decided to...