It’s been nearly two months since my last budget post, and we have visited Morocco (twice), Spain, Jordan, Switzerland, Italy, and Israel before flying back to Detroit on December 9th. During these 42 days, we spent a total of $5,780, giving us at a weekly spend rate of $963. This is much better than my […]
Archives for December 2015
Merry Christmas from Redhead Roamer!
Every year, my mom gets a new Christmas ornament for our family’s tree that relates to what was going on in our lives that year. In the past, it has been running shoes, an engagement ring, and a kitty for me or a surfboard, basketball shoes, and a white doctor’s coat for my sister. This […]
Tel Aviv During Hanukah
Hooked on study abroad after my semester in Rome, I jumped at the opportunity to study abroad again during graduate school. The University of Chicago offers a handful of short-term study abroad programs for its part-time MBA students, and my employer was kind enough to let me take two and a half weeks off in […]
A Sad Travel Detour to Say Goodbye to My Grandpa
My grandfather, Joe Migliore, passed away on Wednesday while I was in Israel. He died in his sleep at 95 years of age. The Israeli family we were staying with told us there is a word in Hebrew that means “the kiss” for this type of peaceful death, which I thought was a really beautiful thought. […]
Two Years on the Road… of Marriage
A lot has happened since we had our first dance as husband and wife two years ago today. We’ve lived together with our cat Max in a little one bedroom apartment in Chicago, mastering a carefully orchestrated dance during dinnertime since only one of us could be in the tiny kitchen at the same time. […]