On our walk back from the cemetery, I noticed a small, lovely market. We hadn't eaten much that day (pain au raisin and café au lait for me) so we stopped to see what looked good. The weather was fine that day, and we had a free late afternoon, so I suggested we buy some bread, cheese, vegetables, olives, and wine, and have a picnic!
There are few experiences that define my haphazard years living abroad more than taking a night train. 5-hour border-delays, accidentally missing my stop, waking up to discover there is someone new in my compartment, and making friends in the bar car at 2am all mark my experiences of this well-worn traveler's adventure. This past November …
I took a week-long trip to Cuba last month! It was a fantastic adventure, which I originally wrote for the fabulous travel-writer Charish Badzinski's blog, The Rollerbag Goddess Global Communications. Here's the piece in all of it's rum-soaked and diesel-fueled glory: Adventures in communism and vulnerability May, 2019 I jolted awake in the passenger seat …
I created this book with images I made from around the world for my two sweet nephews in 2017. It was a year when I worked at a high-paced immigration coalition, and was regularly answering media calls to comment on President Trump's anti-immigrant executive orders and legislative nightmares, pull together major press conferences, put spokespeople …
The Bay of Thailand, next to magical Prachuap Khiri Khan. Misadventure and delight in a sleepy fishing village I stood waist-deep in the crystalline sea, my finger-tips slowly moving through the water. Across the horizon to my left and to my right, the soft curves of Ao Manao Bay’s rocky hills wrapped me in a …
Sophie Vodvarka Chicago-Based Freelance Writer 