Sitio de Mata, Costa Rica – We will be in Costa Rica for almost five weeks, staying in four different parts of the country. If all goes well, each region (and each house we have rented) has its own unique…
Take Your Kids to Work Day
Central Valley, Costa Rica – Besides treating the family to a fabulous adventure, I am also researching a guidebook. Supposedly. I have to admit I’ve gotten a slow start. In fact, we might be moving backwards. Twin V has been…
Flying South
Sitio de Mata, Costa Rica – Travel days are never easy, and yesterday was no exception. But I am pleased to report that we survived two airplane flights and a two-hour drive and we are now comfortably settled in our…
Pura Vida, here we come
One week from today, we will be on our way to Costa Rica. We will have a little more than a month to climb volcanoes, explore the cloud forest, spy on monkeys, soak in hot springs and play at the…
Boston Tea Party Ships
I finally found a legitimate reason to suck up the $25 (!) admission fee and check out Boston’s newest attraction. A decade after being destroyed by fire, the Boston Tea Party ships are once again docked at Griffin’s Wharf, alongside…
An Alvar Aalto Tour of Finland
Anyone who has visited an Apple store has sat in a sleek `high stool’ created by Finnish designer Alvar Aalto in 1935. His curvaceous Savoy vase is still an icon of Finnish design, even 75 years after its creation. But…
Flatbread Company: How to entertain house guests during a hurricane
Somerville, Massachusetts – I know it was the perfect storm and everything, but was it really necessary to shut down the entire state? No school, no museums, no nothing. I was desperate to find something to keep my Finnish house…
Mr Autumn Men
Stow, Mass – Autumn is in the air, and everybody in the greater Boston area is in a good mood. I thought it was just in the pink house, or maybe on our street, but then I read this hilarious…
Leaf-peeping by Bike
Boston – The sky is blue, the air is crisp and the leaves are aflame with gold, crimson and orange. It is autumn in Boston — and a perfect day for a bicycle ride. Boston’s compact and relatively flat geography…
Making Tracks to Great Destinations
Carver, Massachusetts – Twin S and Twin V are loco for locos. They are on a first-name basis with Thomas the Tank Engine and all of his friends – and let me tell you, Thomas has a lot of friends.…