It's a rainy Sunday morning as our flight from Barcelona is landing in San Sebastian in Basque Country, the north of Spain.   We've been to San Sebastian many times and, in some ways, it is our favorite place to be.  We love it water-front city, its food, and its … [Read more...]

“We travel, initially, to lose ourselves, and we travel, next, to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again—to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.” Pico IyerI love this quote from Pico … [Read more...]

I'm on the flight home from Chicago, and the young girl beside me is singing.  I'd been on a research trip where I spent a wonderful day driving around with my cousin Mike, visiting neighborhoods I hadn't been to in half my life, standing in front of my grandmother's … [Read more...]

"Nobody has ever described the place where I've just arrived."  Paul Theroux from the Pillars of Hercules.  … [Read more...]

https://www.marymorris.net/80/

Don't be afraid of anything that can't eat you.And be respectful of those that can.    … [Read more...]