My month long journey across Italy started with a simple goal to discover if I could finally ditch my passport by claiming Italian citizenship. To recap, Italia...
Through some online sleuthing, I discovered that my father's family hailed from another seaside Italian village. San Vito Chietino is about halfway down the eas...
My next stop on the family history tour was twelve kilometers straight into the mountains and to the ancestral home of my grandmother, Basilia LoPresti. Bus sch...
The first thing you notice about Skopje, the capital of Macedonia, are the statues. There are hundreds of them. And they are mostly terrible. Every Macedonian t...
After dipping out of Belgrade, I found myself in Užice, a city name I seem perennially doomed to mispronounce. Located southwest of the Serbian capitol, I was i...
It all started with a few drinks the night before (as most good stories start), and now it's nine the morning and I'm sailing up the Drin River in Albania tryin...
A giant tidal wave hits a tiny Norwegian fjord town. A German comedy about neo-nazis. An extended puppet sex scene with full frontal dudity. All this and more a...
Romania is littered with castles, fortresses, and citadels. Most seem to be hidden and/or unknown so it helps to roadtrip around with a local history expert. On...
It's my birthday so I started off my new year with a super fun adventure to the Seven Ladders Canyon outside of Brasov. Like the previous trip to The Borzesti G...