Because of the pandemic currently affecting the world, we are grounded for the foreseeable future and my hobbies now include trying to get our money back from airlines and puzzles. In between Zoom...
Blog posts from Daily life
September 2019 (in a few seconds per day)
Continuing my video trend from last month - here are some snapshots of our life in September... E+L September 2019 from Leandra Ganko on Vimeo.
Dinner at Yamazushi Japanese Restaurant
Yamazushi has been on my want-to-go list for years but I knew Eric would not be into all the fish. When their website was redesigned recently, I noticed a price increase starting in 2020 so I talked...
August 2019 (in a few seconds per day)
I had decided recently that I wanted to take more photos of my daily life. We always take a ton to document our travels but days go by without a single picture when we are relaxing / working at...
20 years later…
Eric and I are celebrating twenty years as a couple today. In 7,305 days we have visited 40+ countries, bought a house, started a business, raised two dogs, and most importantly, fallen in love...
Riesling, lost & found
Back in early September (during our trip to Canada) our house-sitter let Riesling out into the backyard unattended and she wandered off. She was missing for three nights and even writing this now I...
Homemade Energy Bites
Ever since discovering Tom & Luke's cranberry and cashew snackaballs in New Zealand last year, I have been wanting to try a homemade version. After picking up a tub of pitted dates at the Indian...
Memory Monday: a year in the garden
In May, just before we left for Bali, I built a wire trellis to support several climbing plants including moonflower, cardinal climber and passionflower. Starting in early June I took a series of...
Carpet Cleaning 101
With two dogs and frequent guests, our living room carpet gets a lot of abuse. In the last few months in particular, a bunch of random dirt spots have showed up with no logical explanation and it...
A family of four…
If you follow either of us on social media, you may have noticed an extra dog has been showing up in our photos lately... So, say hello to Pasha - the newest member of our family! She is also a mini...
Three Weddings in August
After not having been to a wedding in over two years we found ourselves with three in one month this August! Thankfully one was local and the other two involved family, so we got to visit with lots...
Memory Monday: Wayfarer’s Chapel
In August 2004, Eric and I had just moved to North Carolina. We had some time off before school started so we took a trip out to Los Angeles to visit my brother who had graduated from college and...
Happy 13th Birthday!
Our furry child turns 13 today. That's about 65 in dog years but you would never know by the way she approaches her daily two-mile walks. We've been through a lot of long car trips, hikes, stuffed...
Memory Monday: bulldogs in Athens
Ten years ago this July, we did a little exploring in our then hometown of Athens, GA to see how many of the decorated bulldogs we could spot. We photographed 21 different bulldogs and on a sunny...
Memory Monday: making a shell pendant
We did a bit of beach walking in Sengiggi on Lombok and Candidasa on Bali and one of my favorite finds were these jewel-like purple shells. My goal was to find at least one intact that I could turn...
Brewgaloo 2014
The last weekend of April was busy for us, first on Friday with the Art of Cool jazz festival that we helped fund through Kickstarter, then on Saturday with this year's Brewgaloo NC beer and local...
2013 retrospective
Leandra recently completed our annual year-in-photos recap with a 4 minute video overview highlighting our adventures from 2013. videos from previous years- 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009 Some of our...
It’s our anniversary but I also want to talk about my new kitchen pantry
Twelve years ago Eric and I got married! Here's what we looked like a few days before the wedding -- we were kids! :) Then, four years later, we bought a house with a kitchen that looked like this...
Our Itinerary
2024 Trips
San Diego, CA (Jan)
Sarasota, FL (Feb)
Madrid, Spain (Mar)
Valencia, Spain (Mar+Apr)
Palma, Mallorca (Apr)
Croatia (May)
Long Island, NY (July)
Faroe Islands (Aug)
London, UK (Sept)
Puglia, Italy (Sept)
Matera, Italy (Oct)
Rome, Italy (Oct)
Mosel Valley, Germany (Oct)
Frankfurt, Germany (Oct)
London + Manchester, UK (Dec)
2023 Trips
San Diego (Jan)
Orlando (Feb)
Richmond, VA (Apr)
Northern Italy (Apr)
NC Mountains (May)
Long Island (Jul)
Wisconsin (Aug)
Chicago (Aug)
Oak Island, NC (Sept)
Brooklyn, NY (Sept)
Bordeaux + Rugby World Cup (Sep)
Castilla y León (Sep)
Seychelles (Nov)
Willamette Valley (Dec)
2022 Trips
Florida (Feb)
NC Mountains (Apr)
Washington DC (Apr)
Valencia, Spain (May)
Hilton Head, SC (May)
Pacific NW (Jun)
Long Island (Jul)
Florida (Sept)
Chicago (Sept)
Poland (Sept)
NC Mountains (Nov)
Euro Xmas Markets (Dec)