Jeremy Coerper

Hello friends and family! Welcome to our travel blog. As you all know, we just recently dove together into the eternal blessing of nuptual bliss. We loved seeing you all who were able to make it to the wedding. You may also know that we will be spending the next few months travelling in Hawaii, honeymooning a little, working on some farms, and just really being intentional with each other as we discern where we want to be and what we want to do next. We feel very fortunate to have this time to really focus on each other during this transition period, and to do so in such a beautiful place! So we hope you'll enjoy our updates and hearing about our adventures. Mahalo!... read more

With one week left and three travel days on my Eurail Pass, I hopped back on a train and headed south for Italy and warmer weather. My first stop was an area in northwestern Italy known as Cinque Terre which consists of five small fishing villages just a few miles apart from one another. I booked a hostel in Riommaggiore, the eastern most and one of the smallest of the villages consisting basically of one street running from the tiny harbor uphill about 200 yards and lined with little shops and produce stands. Proliferating up the little valley's walls from this street is a jumble of flats and apartments built one on top of another in a way that could best be described as organized chaos - but with so much character! Winding through these multi-colored ... read more

The Tuesday before Thanksgiving, Ben and I flew to Paris to meet our parents who were kind enough to come visit. Actually, they'd always wanted to see Paris, so it was a good excuse for them too! It was fun to spend a week and the holiday together in a completely different way than we're used to. We actually had Thanksgiving dinner in a great Indian restaurant in Paris - doesn't get much more international than that! Of course we enjoyed lots of fine French cuisine throughout the week too - cheeses, chocolates, wines, and breads. Food plays a huge role in the lives of French people (which I was cool with), but the fact that you see very few obese people shows that the focus is on quality not quantity, something we could definitely learn ... read more

I took an overnight train to the small town of Penzance, Cornwall, in the far west corner of England. The overnight journey was far cheaper than day travel but made for a long, frigid night waiting for multiple transfers in unheated rail stations. But I arrived to more spectacular, sunny, but unusual weather for this time of year. The next farmstay I'd arranged was about 15 minutes north of Penzance. An older couple, Fred and Nell Mustill, own the farm which consists of several acres of land (some of which they rent to local cattle owners for grazing), a small organic veg garden, some managed woodlands, a stone farmhouse, an attached apartment in back where I stayed (by far the nicest WWOOF accomodations I've had!), and a workshop/shed. On the property were also some ancient stone ... read more

It was hard to leave Scotland. I’d unexpectedly fallen in love with the country and had already stayed much longer than planned. But I was excited to see a new country and wind down for a few days which is what I did in Dublin. I was fortunate to have a place to stay as my college friend, Elizabeth, had recently moved to Dublin to attend the Royal School of Surgeons. So it was nice to catch up with her as well as with sleep, laundry, emails, healthy eating, and of course the best Guinness in the World. I managed to soak in a few other Dublin experiences and some Irish history too. A highlight again was the Anglican Cathedrals, St. Paul’s and Christ Church, both dating from the 12th century, where I caught an Evensong ... read more