back!

...happier and fatter than when we started-- not that i needed the scale to tell me that this was an incredible, best-ever kind of trip. 

 i'll start more or less from the beginning. disclaimer: it may be all vacation pictures & stories 'round these parts for the next couple weeks. xox

Travel, we agreed, was a litmus test: if we could make the best of the chaos and serendipity that we'd inevitably meet in transit, then we'd surely be able to sail through the rest of life together just fine. So far, we'd done pretty well. -Julia Child from My Life in France (i'm really loving this book but it makes my mouth water almost painfully while reading)