At some point, we will take our first post-COVID trips. For many of those who have been vaccinated, it will be summer 2021. It certainly will be for me. For others, it might take a little longer. But with vaccines being distributed in greater numbers, post-COVID travel is on its way. And that goes for …
We did it! 2020 has come to an end! When I wrote my last monthly update, I wrote that we were leaving lockdown in Prague. And we did…for two weeks. Now, we’re back in the situation that dominated November: restaurants are closed, cafes serve coffee out their front doors, non-essential shops are closed, and we …
I thought that 2016 was bad. This was worse — SO many times worse, universally worse. The year that will be written about forever as the dumpster fire of the early 21st century. We’re going to look back at 2020 as the year when everything fell apart. But even in the year that brought us …
When you ask me where to go in Europe that’s a cool city to visit for a few days — somewhere a bit off the beaten path, but not TOO off the beaten path — that’s when I start talking about Riga, Latvia. As a Latvian-American, I have a soft spot for Riga. In 2015 …
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This year of reading was a bit of a slow burn. For awhile, it seemed like I hadn’t read many books that truly grabbed me. Then in the final third of the year, I kept getting hit over and over with fabulous book after fabulous book! So far I’ve read 52 books in 2020 — …
2020 was all about looking for a silver lining. In a year of turmoil, I was able to find a lot of joy — and I was grateful for that. Sometimes that’s all that you can say. Here are my favorite travel moments of 2020. Crossing the Border from Serbia into Croatia It was early …
2020 was the year that travel ground to a halt for most people. While most people didn’t travel at all this year, I feel extraordinarily lucky that I got to experience as much as I did. How was I able to experience so much travel in 2020? I began the year in Cuba and was …
It’s official — I’m a cat mom! This month, Charlie and I discovered a pair of rescue kittens that needed a home, and we decided to adopt them! They are two gray tabbies with white bellies and white paws, and their names are Lewis and Murray. Their foster family originally named them Harley and Davidson …
It’s crazy how different October 1 looked from October 31. At the beginning of the month, life in Prague was almost normal. Restaurants and bars closed at 10:00 PM, and masks were required indoors, but other than that, it was Prague as usual, operating in full. Then the Czech Republic’s COVID infection rate became the …
I write a lot about politics here — and even more so on the Adventurous Kate Facebook page. Every single time that I post something remotely political, I get plenty of people saying, “Stick to travel.” Let’s talk about that. Travel is a political act. Every time you cross an international border, every time you …
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