A Garden in Fiesole
Fiesole, Italy The Sights in Florence I sat soaking up the sun in a small walled garden. Tumbling geraniums held the moss-covered stones together as they did most of this hillside town. The drone of...
View ArticleFishing Village Fiestas in the Philippines
Filipino Fiesta I was fortunate enough to spend 9 months in San Fernando on Palawan Island in the Philippines. San Fernando is about an hour North East of El Nido and the cliché’s ‘off the beaten...
View ArticleVan Life in the South of Spain
Van Life Everywhere I looked online, van travel was stylishly portrayed. Elegant people draped over beautiful hand-made bedspreads; friends laughing, beers in hand and the soft golden light of dusk...
View ArticleThe Secret Side of Santorini
“Santorini would not be what it is without Pinterest.” As my Greek taxi driver maneuvered the twisting turns around the volcanic mountains, the island was laid out below us: scattered farms, lush,...
View ArticleEmbracing Colombian Beer Culture
Beer Culture in Columbia When I left the United States to be an English Teaching Fellow in Colombia, friends and family inevitably asked two things: “Isn’t it dangerous?” and “What food or drink are...
View ArticleIn Search of The Bird of Paradise
It’s just after 3:00 am when a voice outside my cabin door calls softly, telling me that its time to go. I make my way gingerly up the internal staircase from below decks in pitch darkness, careful not...
View ArticleKerala – Slow and Peaceful
In September, just after the refreshing monsoons had cooled Kerala, I went on my first houseboat along the incredible lakes and rivers of Kerala. The slow life along the river and centuries old...
View ArticlePanic in Puerto Rico!
The mood across the table was gloom. A heavy aura of tense suspense had descended into the living room. You could see worried expressions on our faces if there had been enough light to do so. I was...
View ArticleFeeling Good at Leukerbad, Switzerland’s Thermal Pool Village
If you have the hots for hot springs, Leukerbad is the place to hot tail it to. In January I boarded the Glacier Express from St. Moritz at southeastern Switzerland and rode cross country to Zermatt,...
View ArticleLooking for Leopards in Sri Lanka – With a Dash of Comfort
Looking for leopards at Yala National Park in Sri Lanka, sounds like one of the easiest things to do, especially once you learn that the park is known to have the largest population of leopards in the...
View ArticleDon’t just travel Southeast Asia- live it!
A lot of my friends are envious of my so-called traveler’s lifestyle. But in truth, I don’t see myself as a traveller. I actually am not at all attracted to the idea of constantly moving, living moment...
View ArticleHakuna Matata: What to expect on an African Safari
Most of us experience the wilderness of Africa through the movies and some through stories. We often see people on t.v. Going on African tours and seeing the wildlife firsthand. We also see the animals...
View ArticleThe 101 Road Trip Packing List
Whether you’re planning to drive cross-country on what is the ultimate road trip for many or you’ll simply follow your adventurous heart and take a lovely scenic road to your next holiday destination,...
View ArticleA Stranger Roadtrippen’ in a Strange Land – How I Learned to Road Trip Abroad
Friends often call me a NASA-TV nerd. I watch transfixed by late night filler video of an earth rotating below the orbiting International Space Station, and in the same way I’ m fascinated at how...
View ArticleMarooned Near the Matterhorn: Escape from Snowed-In Zermatt
Murdered on the Glacier Express to Zermatt In January I planned to take an eight hour ride via first class coach with panoramic windows from Switzerland’s most luxurious center in its southeast to its...
View ArticleA Symbiotic Relationship Between Man and One of Africa’s Most Feared...
The hyena is a feared predator across Sub-Saharan Africa. With jaws strong enough to devour bones and an evil cackle to send chills up your spine. Although, while the others live in fear, a village in...
View ArticleThe Omphalos of Tuscany in Castelmuzio
Everyone tells me that they simply love touring Italy. I do too. The food, the wine, the undulating roads lined with emblematic cypress trees. Beginning with the Etruscans millennia ago up to today’s...
View ArticleOur Time with the Grab Boys: A Look at Da Nang from the Boys Who Ride It
“I think I want to go to Japan after this semester,” says Lam, one of the grab drivers who has taken me home a few times now, in Da Nang Vietnam. “I want to do my studies in Japan because I am studying...
View ArticlePanic in Puerto Rico!
The mood across the table was gloom. A heavy aura of tense suspense had descended into the living room. You could see worried expressions on our faces if there had been enough light to do so. I was...
View ArticleThe Long Walk to Freedom
A Walk Toward Freedom My Favorite Memory of South Africa They must have been 12, some older or younger, maybe 100 in all. They were kids in school uniforms, maroon sweaters with gold accents, whites...
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