Let’s Get Lost
Miracles on hold
Sitting in a hotel room in Orlando, Florida on a Saturday afternoon in November, I find myself at the very epicenter of America’s most popular holiday resort and entertainment complex. [...]
Chasing the Northern Lights
We'd talked many times about seeing the Northern Lights together. But we'd had a few spats of late — it was 2017— and after returning from a whirlwind trip to [...]
To the house Dalí built
Two and a half hours north of Barcelona, along the rugged Costa Brava, is an exquisite jewel of a fishing village that I am reluctant to share with anyone for [...]
The road to Andorra
The tiny principality of Andorra inadvertently wound up in the news over a recent controversy stirred up by President Donald Trump comparing COVID-19 mortality rates in the United States with [...]
Jeff’s COVID Mania Syndrome
Eight weeks. That’s how long my medical journey has lasted since my doctor first referred me to a mobile testing unit in a shopping center parking lot to get a [...]
Kissed by sickness
Sidelined. Benched during the biggest story of my journalistic career. My last two weeks in Tallahassee, Florida I’ve been forced into the role of spectator as other reporters do the [...]
Love in the time of the coronavirus
Columnist Jeff Schweers is briefly furloughed from work and finds a trace of what he least expected.
COVID-19’s Florida “attack”
Things are happening so fast these days that I can only tell you about today, Friday, March 20, my first day off in two weeks. Fourteen days ago I began [...]
Honoring the dead
For such a beautiful and fertile region, Champagne has seen its share of bloodshed. Germans pushed the French and allies back to the Marne and chased them through Belleau Wood [...]
Behind closed doors
It had been three years since I last visited my great-uncle and his wife at their B&B in the Champagne region of France. I knew from Bill’s daughter that he [...]
The humbled guide
As sure as April showers bring May flowers, spend enough time traveling in Europe and someone’s going to pick your pockets. Take it from me. Or maybe I should rephrase [...]
“Let’s Get Lost”
Jeff Schweers, Author
Jeff Schweers is an award-winning political and investigative journalist based in Tallahassee, Florida. A New York transplant, he has a passion for food, culture and travel, which he covers in a blog also titled Let’s Get Lost.