This year marked my 17th trip to Burning Man, the enormous arts festival in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada, but Zevin’s first. Leading up to it, I was worried whether the heat and dust would make it too...
Brittany by Boat
From Nantes, we travelled two hours north to the village of Saint-Martin-sur-Oust where we started our week-long canal boat trip. The adventure originated when our friends in Germany told us they had found a German Groupon for a discounted...
Nantes and Les Machines d’Île
From Tel Aviv, we took a five hour flight to Nantes, once the capital of Brittany in northwestern France. This once grand city had been heavily bombed in the war, so much of it is rebuilt, but all in...
Returning to Tzfat and Beit She’an
Sometime just after college, I spent six weeks backpacking around Israel on my own. I didn’t have any itinerary, and at some point found myself in Tzfat, a northern hilltop town where a number of important Kabbalistic thinkers and...