Hi! I'm Melissa. I write and photograph The Traveler's Lunchbox from my home, wherever in the world that may be. Right now it's northern Germany. During the life of this blog it has also been Seattle (my home city) and Edinburgh, Scotland (where I lived for seven years and completed a PhD). At various points in my pre-blogging past it was also Berkeley, New Orleans, Bilbao and Dublin, the last of which is where I met my German husband and best friend Manuel. As if things weren't international enough, in 2009 we adopted a galgo español (Spanish greyhound) named Lily, who does her best to help us work off all our extra calories.

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Proof that I was blogging long before it was fashionable!