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post by Jill Emmett's Move to Paris Some of you reading this have met, or maybe even know very well, our unique little Emmett. How to describe him? How does one capture such a complex little creature in the words of the English language? We got Emmett as a puppy, precisely 8 weeks from his birth, in October of 2022. I have to give considerable credit to my dear friend Laura, who also owns the barn I taught at and the horses I’ve loved for nearly two decades. I was doing chor

post by Jill A glass of vin blanc and espresso at a cafe in Paris, from our February 2024 trip. We're about to celebrate our 8th wedding anniversary in less than a week. Eight years ago, we were getting ready to tie the knot, and because we've always been a little crazy, we were also preparing to hit pause on our entire lives and travel for a year. This blog started during that time, documenting how and why we made that trip happen. Something we took away from our big trip wa

As I sat on the edge of the cockpit, my arms wrapped around the side of the dodger (not unlike a small monkey), riding out the 6 (maybe 8)..

I cannot fall back asleep. Presently, it is 7:30am on a rainy Sunday in Northern Wales; my pants smell like a potent medley of grass clippin

I am writing from an anchorage at Isla Tiburón in the Sea of Cortez; we arrived here in the dark last night so today was day of exploring...

More than three hundred and forty days ago, we pulled out of the driveway to begin our trip; twelve countries later, and we are getting...

Looking at the calendar is kind of a surreal experience. First of all, days of the week haven't really mattered to us since we left last...

About two weeks ago, our Workaway hosts Maria and Mateo had a family of twelve (plus the four of us, making it a group of sixteen) over....

When we set out on this trip, we didn't have a goal for an "ideal" number of Workaway experiences, but now that we are a chunk of the way...

I look down at the shower drain and realize I forgot to remove my blister band-aids before getting in, and they now drift feebly at my feet.

We have already, sadly, come to the end of our Workaway here in Thuir, France. This beautiful little town is just outside of Perpignan....

Well, yeah, so... it turns out a whole month in December wasn't enough for us. Paris is Andrew's favorite place in the world, and I've...

Though my shoulders are sporting a light sunburn from yesterday's stroll, as I write this, rain is pattering heavily on the roof of our...

Since the day we embarked on this adventure, we've had the year to come subconsciously organized into different "legs" of the trip. The...

Our first Workaway of this trip was all the way back in January at a multigenerational family farm in Thun, Switzerland. We were fully...

Wales has been wild in many ways so far. Yesterday was our last "day off" for the next two weeks at our Workaway, as on Tuesday our hosts...

"I think I could endure just about anything as long as I have my own bathroom," I said as I got ready to shower in the ensuite our Airbnb...

Bucharest--easily mixed up with the similar-sounding Budapest--is the capitol city of Romania. Nearly everyone back home, and pretty much...

It's been a while since we posted, but not at all because little has happened; we've been jumping around from place to place more rapidly...