Things can only get better. That's what things (almost) always do

Let's start the new year with some cold, hard facts about the world we travel in. Warning: pessimistic readers may want to look away now

Comares, Spain: sunlight breaking through or clouds rolling in? You decide

In November, I went back to Comares, a Spanish mountaintop village where Annie and I have a house. November is usually a month we’d avoid: it’s when the rains reliably come, the storms barrel up the Pillars of Hercules and in a village over 700m up, you can spend your whole trip e…