Sabbatikos

Sabbatikos began in the summer of 2013, when I took a sabbatical and started writing down our family’s adventures, beginning in the Greek isles of the Sporades, continuing through Paris, and then across the American West on a national-parks road trip we called the Great American Roadtrip.

The sabbatical ended. The blog didn’t.

More than a decade and some 300 posts later, Sabbatikos is still going, from the Atacama Desert and Patagonia to Iceland and Japan, from Berlin and Prague to the San Juan Islands and the Oregon coast. My wife and I do most of our wandering together, our daughter joining when we can lure her, with camera in hand and the next adventure on our mind.

I’m Marc Madenwald, based in Seattle. This is where I keep the stories: the hikes, the meals, the wrong turns, and the spontaneous moments that make lasting memories. Thanks for reading.