Apologies for any technical difficulties you’ve had accessing Alex in Wanderland this week! Posts have been showing up early, disappearing entirely, and generally just brazenly misbehaving. Hopefully we’ll have things back under control soon, and I appreciate your patience in the meantime. . Greetings from 20,000 feet! I’m currently en route to my next adventure (check…

Note: Yup, I’m a little behind posting roundups. After the next one, however, we should be all caught up. Sorry for any confusion my lazy posting has caused! From Halloween to my birthday to Thanksgiving to Christmas, this was a period of big celebrations! And big heapings of time spent with some very special people. Over…

Yes. It is March, and I am putting up my Christmas post. Whoops. They say it’s the most wonderful time of the year — and I believe them. I consider myself somewhat of a Christmas evangelist (not to be confused with a christian evangelist, which is something else entirely and to my knowledge involves less wearing…

You guys know how much I love playing tour guide. And one of my absolute favorite locations to do it? My home state of New York. It’s so easy to fall into a routine when you’re back on your home turf, there’s nothing like seeing it through the eyes of a traveler to make you fall…

It always feels good to be home. This time, I’d come back for the holidays — less than a six week stretch between Thanksgiving and Christmas (why yes, I am a tad behind in chronological blogging time, why do you ask?). I didn’t leave the East Coast the entire time, making it my longest stretch of…

It’s hard for me to comprehend that it’s been over a week since I landed back on US soil — time is flying by exactly as I predicted it would. It felt fantastic to be home for Thanksgiving again, and this year my family had the honor of introducing our favorite holiday to an Australia friend…