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May 5, 2024

KZ Hinzert Memorial: Trier, Germany

In March I visited the KZ Hinzert concentration camp (the “KZ” stands for Konzentrationslager, the German word for Nazi concentration camps from 1933-1945) near Trier, Germany, located close to the borders of Luxembourg and France. Operated from 1939-1945, a memorial was opened here in 2005. I first discovered KZ Hinzert when I toured the absolutely…
April 5, 2024

Moments of Remembering and Forgetting: Basel, Switzerland

This March I spent a day and a half exploring the lovely Swiss city of Basel. Less than a five hour ride by train, I spent my time exploring the city’s beautiful landscape, mueseums, and of particular interest to me, the colonial legacy within Basel. Mirroring my wandering through the city, this meandering post will…
January 7, 2024

2023 Year in Review: Plates, Cups, & Backpack Snacks
December 30, 2023

2023 Year in Review: Favorite Books

Let’s chat about my favorite of 2023! I track my reading through Storygraph, an app I highly recommend not only for their stats information, but also a solid way to cut ties with Bezos’ Goodreads. My stats for 2023: – 154 books– 46,473 pages– 80% nonfiction / 20% fiction– Top Genres: Food and Drink, History–…
December 27, 2023

2023 Year in Review: Travel Journal

Hey there 2023. It’s always nice to pause between prepping cabbage rolls and stirring a vegan version of New Year’s Stew to reflect on the year. A year packed with new adventures, personal growth, and, of course faithfully upholding a few annual traditions — who has the time to stress over the uncontrollable when there…
November 26, 2023

“You Keep Silent Until the Grave or You End Up in the Grave”: Recsk National Memorial Park, Hungary

Alllll the way back in 2020, a friend and I decided to adventure through northeast Hungary to visit the lovely vacation town of Miskolc [sounds like “meesh-kolts” in English], before making our way to the gorgeous city of Eger [sounds like “ay-guh” in English] and of course the wine region known as the Valley of…
November 5, 2023

Dissonant Heritage: The Ninth Fort of the Kaunas Fortress, Lithuania

TW: This post describes a site of imprisonment, torture, and mass murder. Acts of the first stage of the Final Solution — the complete destruction of the Jewish people — took place here, outside of Kaunas, Lithuania. Last fall my lovely friend Bri (of Home Base Belgium) and I trekked around the Baltic countries of…
October 11, 2023

2022 Year in Review: AllThe[Food, Coffee, & Snacks]Things

Cheers to being that annoying kid photographing all the things I consumed in the past year! I divided this post up by food and snacks, coffee, and drinks, then by destination. There’s no ranking here, friends. Each dish and sip is a treasure. New places — after rebooking three times (fourth is the charm!) we…
September 17, 2023

“A Trace Left by Writing and Memory”: Wrocław, Poland

This post was updated in November 2025. See here for more on Wrocław. Ya girl is publishing a good old-fashioned travel blog! I’m attempting to write again(ish) on a more consistent basis (melting face emoji). Taking a break from memorialization and historical memory research — although there’s a bit here of course — and writing…
September 11, 2023

2022 Year in Review: AllThe[Travel]Things

Ah, 2022. As is the new normal for planning during a pandemic, so much our travel hinged on flexibility and last minute changes, lovely moments I’m thankful to experience; while I prefer a plan, I (now) consider myself a pro at winging it on the fly with as much intention as I can muster. From…