Lisa Yoder

Tag: travel

  • Eating Through Seattle

    Before heading to Alt Summit, which I’ll write about a little bit later, I spent the weekend in Seattle with Chad. One of our most favorite ways to while away some time in a new city is to simply walk and eat, both as much as possible. Seattle was perfectly set up to do just that.…

  • And Heaven Will Smell Like the Airport

    I know that airports are fairly disgusting. Overpriced food shipped in from God-knows-where, stale dry air, dirty bathrooms and SO MANY PEOPLE, most of whom are kind of stressed out. It doesn’t sound awesome. Yet for some reason, I love them. There’s something about them that makes me feel incredibly privileged and luxurious and a…

  • Barcelona: Past & Present Dispatches

    In 2007, I spent six months in Spain, and only 36 hours of that in Barcelona. Those 36 hours turned out to be incredibly eventful — long enough to stand outside the Sagrada Familia and wish we could afford the small entrance fee, long enough to get tricked into eating 15 euro frozen-dinner tourist paella,…

  • What I Learned in Spain

    We’ve been back from Spain for a couple weeks now, but I immediately dove into a barrage of freelance work and trying to put the (not-so) new place together, which left little time to reflect and craft a story worth telling. Still, I wanted to share some snippets of our trip. I’ll follow up with…

  • Lunchtime Reads 9.2.14

    Hola from Spain! I’m here for a little over a week, spending a few days in Salamanca, where I studied for a semester in 2007, before flying on to Barcelona and then to Madrid to finish out the trip. If you want to follow along, I’ve been posting to Instagram like a fiend at @_lisli.…

  • Travel, Making Art, & Permission

    Do you remember the Amtrak Writers’ Residency craze that was happening several months ago? It felt like everyone I knew was talking about it some capacity, most of them longingly. What could be done with weeks on a train to write one’s heart out? Artists wanted in on it too, calling for an artists’ residency.…