PRAGUE: BEAUTIFUL AND CROWDED AND PERFECT AND CRAZY A long long time ago, in a lifetime that seems very far away, Caitlin and I visited Prague. We started the trip with friends in London, which ruled. There’s something so fun about being with cool people in faraway places and we had so much fun. From

SCOTLAND: EDINBURGH IS HAUNTED!! Aite let’s get this out of the way first…Loinz, I blame you. Now that that’s out of the way, allow me to reflect on what I remember of good ol’ Scotland. Loinz, for as long as I’ve known him (unfortunately since like 9th grade) has been obsessed with Scotland. Which made

NORWAY: VIKINGS AND DARKNESS AT NOON Since you asked, I WILL tell you about my childhood, thanks! My pops spent 2 years preaching the good word in Norway in the 1970’s. So growing up, we heard lots and lots of Norway stories. We saw lots of Norway photos. We heard Norwegian and (even still, at

GIBRALTAR: LITTLE ENGLAND INSIDE SPAIN… AND RAD  My life is so ridiculous (humblebrag) that I fly across the world with no plans, head to a random place like Morocco just because it’s there (after all, we are Mallorys, and George Leigh Mallory had that famous Everest quote), and while in Morocco, realize I don’t

MALAGA: RETIRE ME HERE, PLEASE I know I already shared this story (my whole life has like 5 stories and I share them repeatedly…maybe that’s why I have no friends but the lonely lonesome highway) but we chose Malaga pretty much the same way you choose a vacation by throwing a dart at a map:

LONDON PART 2: 24ish HOURS Look man, I don’t want to be one of those fake humble people or those rappers hashtagging #blessed…but I’m really humble and really #blessed…or as PFT Commenter might say, #humbeled. Seriously though, this is my 4th time to London. I’m not even humblebragging, I just think that’s rad and I

$229. No, seriously, $229. San Francisco to Reykjavik to London, each leg nonstop. Round trip. $229. I’d be stupid not to do it, right? Right. And if emotional blackmail is a thing, I did it as follows: Mitch, on phone to Caitlin who’s at work as a stressed out and insanely busy ICU nurse: (Breathlessly)

Switzerland: More Than Just Cheese and Chocolate Iceland. New Zealand. Switzerland. Land. Iceland. Switzerland. New Zealand. Which is the most beautiful place on earth? I don’t know…but I know it ends in “land.” Seriously, Switzerland was insane and life-changing and I don’t even know what to write because I’ve run out of adjectives. Among the

Austria? Well Then! G’day Mate, Let’s Put Another Shrimp on the Barbie! “That’s a lovely accent. New Jersey?” “Austria.” “Austria? Well Then! G’day Mate, Let’s Put Another Shrimp on the Barbie!” “Let’s not.” /Scene. Why Austria? Why not. We were so bloody close that I decided I was going, Caitlin or not, just for the

Germany: Finally Putting My 9th Grade Education to Good Use Look… I have higher than a 9th grade education (well…that’s debatable), but in 8th, 9th, and I think even 10th grades, I studied Deutsch. For those of you unwashed masses, that means German…duh. So I figured I’d pretty much be fluent when I stepped off