6 Reasons Why You Should Sign-up for a CSA Share

April 15, 2014

Spring is finally hopefully almost here. As we dust off the layers of ice and snow that have plagued most of the country this winter, our farmers are working the fields and anticipating a fruitful growing season. Soon, we will be feasting on juicy tomatoes, ripe watermelons, and sweet cantaloupes. As an alternative to the weekly farmers market grind, consider signing up for a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) share. With a CSA,…

Latin America, Travel

Daily Annoyances – Semester in Ecuador Part 3

April 7, 2014

Living in a foreign country is filled with daily annoyances until you learn to adapt. Even some of the most mundane and basic of tasks are done completely different causing you to pause and think through a process that was second nature in your home country. Sometimes, you never adapt and that one action will always make you think of home. The bathrooms were a daily annoyance to me in Ecuador and…

Latin America, Travel, Travel Tips

Have You Ever Traveled to Meet Overseas Family?

April 1, 2014

I was nervous as I stepped off the plane in Buenos Aires. I had no hotel reservation, no taxi waiting to pick me up, no tour guide holding out a welcome sign. For the next three weeks, I was relying on complete strangers for my food, my lodging, my well-being. Sure they were family, but other than two I met ten years prior, I only knew this side of my relations through…

Travel, Travel Tips

Bumps in the Road – What Have You Forgotten to Pack?

January 21, 2014

It’s embarrassing to admit. I know. But at the age of 35 I had never wet shaved. I learned to shave with a hand-me-down electric razor from my father. When it and subsequent razors wore out from my freakishly think stubble (my five o’clock shadow starts around noon), I just bought a replacement electric razor. The situation had only occurred once when the electric razor wouldn’t work due to the lack of…

Blogging, Eating, Food, Travel

What’s In Your 2014?

January 7, 2014

So, I ate pork and sauerkraut on New Year’s Day. That means my 2014 is going to be amaze-balls, right? Or am I screwed because Keith didn’t bring the black-eyed peas? Last year, I posted a rather entertaining blog to ring in 2013 sharing my 2012 blog year in review. As 2013 wound to an end, I anticipated my yearly WordPress results. I put much dedication into The Wandering Gourmand over the past…

Latin America, Travel, Travel Tips

And Then We Were Robbed

November 25, 2013

I have travelled all over the world and have never been robbed. We came out of Colombia unscathed and unmolested. We survived Rome without a pick pocket. We rode the subway in Munich drunker than we should have without a bother. We managed almost getting stranded on a volcano in Costa Rica. I made an emergency evacuation out of the Ecuadorian Amazon as the country was shutting down in national protests with all of…

Latin America, Travel

On Vacations and Timing

November 14, 2013

For some reason, vacations always seem to fall when I most need them. Regular followers of this blog may recall the hellish couple of months that led up to our sojourn to Italy – multiple family visits, my wife’s eye surgery, a bad car accident that totaled out our beloved Jetta Joan, the purchase of a new car, a cancellation notice from our auto insurance carrier, transitions at both of our jobs. …

Europe, Travel

Favorite Moments – Rialto Bridge

October 1, 2013

I’ve written about travel moments in the past. Very rarely did they have to do with the actual place that I was in, but more with a culmination circumstances. The Duff Brothers could have been performing in any city. It was the bar, the people, and the music that captured the travel moment. The same with the pop band in Chiang Mai. That band could have been playing in any international city. …

Europe, Travel

The Truth About Venice

September 10, 2013

My wife and I sat in our room at the Westin Europa and Regina trying to plot out dinner plans over a bottle of Prosecco. She manned the TripAdvisor app on our tablet, and I managed a few blogs on my phone and a myriad of tour books. We wanted to find the perfect restaurant for that authentic Venetian meal. The kind of place where we were the only tourists in a…

Europe, Travel

A Photomontage of a Gondola Ride through Venice

July 9, 2013

We were tired after almost two days of non-stop walking. It was Venice so much of that time was spent lost looking at paper maps and pillaging enough free Wifi to pinpoint our location on Google Maps. Surprisingly, we managed not to argue in these moments of frustration. We had been warned about Venice and instead laughed as other tourists resolved that street signs do not exist in the maze that is…

Lifestyle

Daily Annoyances – Semester in Ecuador Part 3

Have You Ever Traveled to Meet Overseas Family?

Bumps in the Road – What Have You Forgotten to Pack?

What’s In Your 2014?

And Then We Were Robbed

On Vacations and Timing

Favorite Moments – Rialto Bridge

The Truth About Venice

A Photomontage of a Gondola Ride through Venice

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