TRAVEL PHOTOGRAPHS & VIDEO
Kindly visit slideshow or blog {Victrola below} for still images.

At the beginning of 2008 my honey and I left New York, our family, friends, jobs and began a three-year odyssey in Europe in search of a landscape to plant roots. We traveled nomadically through Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, France, Italy, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Austria and Germany, meeting the locals and exploring the possibility of building a life among them.

Along the way we woke to a rooster's crow on a farm on the Tuscan hillside and shared breakfast with wild kitties in a 6th century Benedictine Monastery. We hiked a rock amphitheater to a lunch of fondue among curious goats and were caught in an Italian wedding in a 25,000 year-old village perched on a volcanic plateau. We watched the swifts at dusk give over to the swooping of bats above the valleys of southern France. We danced in the dark with Andalusian kids to a 45 record of Rod Stewart's Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?

We depleted funds, lost possessions, and felt the frustration and longing of strangers in strange lands. We also discovered a wanderlust that keeps us chasing the swifts, seeking the adventure and transformation of nomadic life.