Barcelona 🌍

Written March 6, 2023-March 12, 2023

03/06/2023

Café, una historia de amor

03.07.2022 —> 03.07.2023

Proud of past me for putting myself in a position to be present me. Everything changes, y’all! Maybe not your exact circumstances (my native tongue isn’t coming back) yet thoughts, feelings, and attitude can. It’s amazing

s/o Angie for the ultimate Spanish aventura I’m the luckiest girl in the world

The quote I posted 1 year ago vs my day today

“To remember during the bad days…It won’t last” – Matt Haig

03/08/2023

Estar vivito y coleando

Met a couple from Chicago today who will be at the Taylor Swift concert I’m going to in June; she also recently left her profession to work remotely at a start up just like me, and was friends with her SO’s sister in college before meeting her brother (love ya, Stephanie). Talked to three nurse anesthetists from the Mayo Clinic in Arizona who are very fond of my surgeon (shoutout Dr. Chang ), and grabbed a business card from a couple in Kansas City, KS who have a rental property near St. Louis they want Nick and I to stay in All that and I didn’t even mention brunch, sailing the Mediterranean, and the best food tour I’ve ever been on around old town Barcelona . It’s a wonderful life, Y’all

03/09/2023

“The great book, always open and which we should make an effort to read, is that of Nature.” – Antonio Gaudí

Truly one of the most beautiful experiences I’ve ever had exploring Gaudí’s pieces in Park Güell today. I wish more of the architecture in this world was his. It’s breathtaking, serene, and makes me feel so close to nature I found in my sickest moments, times I’d be laying on the floor and felt unable to move, a little fresh air or a slow walk outside would pull me out of it. Nature is magical or as Gaudí put it, “[t]he straight line belongs to Man. The curved line belongs to God.”

03/11/2023

Vino y espejo fotos

03/12/2023

“Ideally, travel broadens our perspectives personally, culturally, and politically. Suddenly the palette with which we paint the story of our lives has more colors.” – Rick Steves, Travel as a Political Act

Incredibly grateful to our hosts, Angie and John, for thoughtful conversations, heavenly cuisine, top-notch tours, and a beautiful friendship. Barcelona has expanded my palette to include red wine (!!!) and olives – never thought I’d say that And cheers to Amsterdam for bringing me closer to my international colleagues and the best mini pancakes I believe the world has to offer what a joy it was