Last Flight Home

Musings of a former Associate Publisher turned Desperate Housewife
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One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things

My life existed solely in snapshots lately. Around the world in 62 days; boarded 13 flights and drove 39 hours, moved in and about approximately 24 cities in across 3 continents. In between the packing and unpacking, traversing from one airport to the next, crossing states in a day, a sore back resulting from hours of sitting during long haul road trips, and all that fast food we had to stuff our faces with to bypass hunger pains — the only thing I could hang on to for some sense of coherence and order amidst the whirlwind of events was my camera.

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Traveling is a fool’s paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. At home I dream that at Naples, at Rome, I can be intoxicated with beauty, and lose my sadness. I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. I seek the Vatican, and the palaces. I affect to be intoxicated with sights and suggestions, but I am not intoxicated. My giant goes with me wherever I go.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Have I told you about Denmark?

It’s not the strongest of species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.

Charles Darwin

When life gives you lemons…

As the old adage goes, when life gives you lemons make lemonade… however, life gave me chicken pox instead — it would be rather odd if I made lemonade out of that.

Did I mention I was turning 29?

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The night is darkest, just before dawn

On the day of the new year, Jannik and I took a long drive around northern Germany through the neighboring cities of Hamburg, Rendsburg and Flensburg. There really is nothing to do on the first of January as you imagine, fantasizing about spontaneously purchasing two plane tickets to Paris aside (we were checked-in at a hotel by the Hamburg Airport and jet setting was tremendously tempting, if only prior obligations could be dropped on a whim). But we decided otherwise, a short road trip would be more subdue. And since road trips and travels had been a huge part of my marriage, why not start the year to it?

Our big travel plans for 2012 have been made and our flights been booked, we are thoroughly looking forward to for the rest of the year to roll. So it only fits that we start the first day of the year on the road…

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You, Me and Moët

Photo Diary: Welcomed 2012 in an intimate party for two, a decade old vintage Moët, and a seemingly endless colorful display of fireworks in the skyline of Germany…

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Video Blog: God Jul. Juleaften i Hvalsø, Danmark 2011.

I’ve made a ton of home videos lately, I’m addicted. Here’s the video equivalent of my Christmas diary post, I’m planning to do one every year. 

… a new tradition made.