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Living abroad is the best way to reinvent yourself outside the witness protection program. You get to hit the reset button on your life. I discovered this twenty years ago when I fell in love with Seville, moved there, and become a travel writer.
But America is something you have to stay in practice for, and I didn't want to lose my touch. Nowadays I spend half my time in Seville, and half my time in the San Francisco Bay Area where I grew up. My upcoming book My San Francisco: 20 Extraordinary Walks in America's Quirkiest City is based on my weekly visits to the city over the summer of 2024. Part memoir, part guide book, it shares insider info on diners, dive bars, obscure museums, and offbeat neighborhoods. I fill readers in on our urban legends, wildest scandals, and — if they're up for it — how to enjoy the new driverless taxis. It's my personal guide to San Francisco's quirkier corners. 
In San Franciso's iconic Greens restaurant
I'm currently back in Seville, which I wandered into during a visit to Spain twenty years ago. I fell instantly in love with the city's vibrancy, and after multiple visits, my husband and I decided to move there "for a year." We're still there. I wrote about my transition to expat life — the good, the bad, and the gobsmackingly ridiculous — in my book Dancing in the Fountain: How to Enjoy Living Abroad. A few years later, after more or less coming to grips with the challenges of living in a foreign country, I took a three-month train trip through Eastern Europe. It was marvelous, and I wrote another book to share all the best bits: Adventures of a Railway Nomad: How Our Journeys Guide Us Home. Having lived in Seville for two decades now, I’ve learned to view eating as the Spanish do — not as squandering time but as making the most of it. Good food and congenial companionship around the table are often the best antidote to the stresses of these turbulent times. That's what inspired my five-month journey that became the award-winning memoir, The Great Mediterranean Comfort Food Tour. My backstory: I am a fourth generation Californian, born in Palo Alto and educated at the University of California Berkeley. I have worked as a journalist, copywriter, editor, and marketing director in California, Cleveland, Boston, and Seville. So far my travels have taken me to more than 60 countries. I've done volunteer work assignments assisting struggling microenterprises in Europe, Africa, the Caucasus, and Central America. These days I divide my time between California and Seville, Spain — when I'm not on the road in pursuit of another great story. |