Jody Vettori 4/30/15 Jody Vettori 4/30/15

Give Me the Grit

Jody Vettori 11/5/13 Jody Vettori 11/5/13

Mountain & Sea, Part Three: The Pull and Call

Italy has a way of encompassing you, like the bosomy hug from your favorite aunt, the one who let you speak freely, made the best cookies, and always told you that you could run away to her at any time…

Jody Vettori 10/8/13 Jody Vettori 10/8/13

Mountain & Sea, Part Two: Nooks & Crannies

I’m dipping my toes in the Mediterranean this morning. I wish I had some bread and some tea to really hit the spot after the trek down here. I took some side “streets” and pathways…

Jody Vettori 9/30/13 Jody Vettori 9/30/13

Mountain & Sea, Part One: The Hike

My teacup and I reminisced over my travel journals: There are five towns here, all built into the mountainside along the Mediterranean shore…

Jody Vettori 3/8/13 Jody Vettori 3/8/13

Landstuhl Postcards

Excerpt from my Germany 2012 travel journals, with my friends Keith and Johanna…

It’s late summer here in Landstuhl, Germany. The sun is shining and the air is clean…

Jody Vettori 3/1/13 Jody Vettori 3/1/13

Sea of Galilee

Excerpt from my 2011 Israel journals… This morning, we went to the Chapel of the Primacy along the edge of the Sea of Galilee. Our guide Hani explained that this church was made of black basalt stone.

Hani told us how the Sea is really a lake, and how the original transcribers translated it incorrectly...

Jody Vettori 2/28/13 Jody Vettori 2/28/13

Welcome Home

This excerpt is from my Israel travel journals. As some of my good friends have traveled back to Israel this week and I am excitedly reading their updates, missing them and the land itself…