The Cape May-Lewes ferry runs across the Delaware Bay, connecting Southern Delaware to Southern New Jersey. I was ten years old when my dad suggested we take a spontaneous, family day trip. We weren’t visiting New Jersey, we were just going to ride the ferry there and back. A seemingly harmless family activity – except…
Tag: wander
stars and violins
Days before I began my first visit to Morocco, I found myself in Brooklyn, wandering around Bed-Stuy in the fall and hating every first-world minute of it. Growing up on the East Coast put New York on my radar as a potential future home at a pretty early age. I think that’s typical for anyone…
biking through butterflies
I learned to bike when I was 26 years old on a bumpy, sandy road in Sub-Sahara Africa surrounded by butterflies. That’s the short version. The poetic version. The sarcastic version. It was a solo trip from Bouca – the rural village in Benin where I was serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer – to…
biking through butterflies 