Family · Adventure · History · Memory
Stories from a life abroad.
I’m Kurt, an American dad in Amsterdam writing about family travel, expat life in the Netherlands, WWII history, Sully’s War, and the long road of building a life overseas.
What You’ll Find Here
Vida Colorado is part family travel journal, part expat field note, part history project. It is a place for the stories that happen between destinations: the flights, the train platforms, the museum corners, the old letters, and the odd little discoveries that follow you home.
Travel
Family adventures across Europe and beyond, with practical detail and a sense of place.
Sully’s War
A cinematic WWII story project blending AI-created episodes, imagined letters, and real family history.
Letters Home
WWII memory, family history, and the story of pop’s path through North Africa and Europe.
Sully’s War: Where History, Travel, and Memory Meet
This is the project tying together much of the recent work on Vida Colorado: the places, the records, the family history, and the question of what the quieter hours of World War II may have felt like.
History, memory, and imagination
Following the route, then filling in the silence.
Sully’s War grew out of the same impulse behind Letters Home: chasing a family story across North Africa and Europe, then asking what the spaces between the famous battles might have looked and felt like.
Still part of the story
Life abroad and learning to fly remain part of the site’s rhythm.
Sully’s War and travel may be the most active threads right now, but Vida Colorado still includes the everyday reality of becoming Dutchish and the long road of Taking Flight.
Start anywhere
Every route eventually becomes a story.
Whether you came for travel, family history, Sully’s War, or life in the Netherlands, the thread is the same: paying attention to the places and moments that might otherwise pass too quickly.
