About

Thank you for visiting wickedforeign!  My name is Wendy and I’m a native Bostonian currently living in Zürich, Switzerland with my husband (aka Mr. wickedforeign) and our 1-year-old son.

Adventure and travel have always been a part of who I am.  As a child, I wanted to live in the jungle like Jane Goodall and as a teenager I told my advisor that I wanted to be a professional vagabond when he asked me what I wanted to do for a living.  However, my spontaneous side is well balance with my overly analytical side.  So, I’ve done my best over the years to incorporate adventure and travel into a “normal” life.

I traveled a bit as a child with annual road trips from Boston to Orlando, a few excursions to Canada, my first solo flight at age 12, and headed over to Europe for the first time during my senior year in high school.

As an adult, I’ve lived in Boston, Arizona, San Diego, Manhattan, and now Zürich.  I’ve driven across the U.S. alone, lived out of my car for a few months in California, jumped out of 2 perfectly good working airplanes in Maine, gone on several 5 day solo biking treks on Martha’s Vineyard, traveled throughout North America and Europe, and various other shenanigans that have helped me see a very small amount of this very big world.

My latest adventure is my move abroad.  A recent job promotion for my husband has brought our family to Switzerland and we are doing our darndest to travel as much as humanly possible.  We have a very young son and I am very, very pregnant with our second child but I still try to pick up and go whenever and wherever I can.

There is still a whole lot more world to be traveled and many more adventures to be had.  So I hope you’ll join me (and my family) as we become wickedforeign.