Travel Tales Cheap Beer, 15-Year-Old Olympians, and Big Z: A Few Reasons to Love Lithuania "There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign." - Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. Three months ago, I had no intention of stepping foot in Lithuania. Honestly, I would have been hard pressed to find Lithuania on a map. But as I f Written by Matthew August 23, 2012June 12, 2013
Travel Tales Sixteen Royal Days in the UK “The English never draw a line without blurring it.” – Winston Churchill This is how I always felt about the United Kingdom. I never truly understood the differentiation between United Kingdom and Great Britain (and where England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland fit into the mix). Written by Matthew July 19, 2012June 12, 2013
Travel Tales Practicing Poverty and Other Lessons in Stoicism (AKA United Kingdom and Iceland are Expensive!) “There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.” – Seneca After polishing off a drab homemade dinner of pasta, kidney beans, and canned peas all mixed together, reality smacked me in the face. After spending almost five years in the working world with Written by Matthew July 5, 2012August 12, 2013