A Queensland Sanctuary Main Beach, Noosa Heads
Noosa, Australia
I am a guest here, volunteering through a company called Workaway, receiving room and board for 5 hours a day of work… but it’s hard to call it work when you get Continue Reading Swimming on Opposite Sides of the World Bondi Iceberg Club
Yin and Yang
The iconic Bondi Iceberg Club is an ultra white 4-story rectangular building built into the cliffs of Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia. Light blue ocean waves pound the cliffs below and naturally Continue Reading Flying in Cockpits: New Zealand's Air Travel Boarding Sounds Air flight
A few weeks ago at the Nelson airport, something strange happened… and by strange, I mean amazing. When checking in for my flight, I wasn’t asked for a ticket or even a piece Continue Reading Armenia: Visiting the Motherland (dictionary.com: motherland (origin: 1705-15): 1. one’s native land. 2. the land of one’s ancestors. 3. a country considered as the origin or source of something.)
My mother’s side of the family is 100% Armenian. Both of her parents’ families were from Continue Reading What and Where to Eat: An afternoon of food and drinks in Mexico City A Grasshopper Taco
It would be wrong to travel through Mexico City and not get your hands a little dirty. That means eating at markets and testing the street food. Mercado San Juan is a perfect example of Continue Reading Reflections on the Year: A letter to my high school alumni magazine
“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller
20 years after graduating from Saint Andrews (Class of ‘96), I made some major life changes. Most of my high school friends were somewhere between Continue Reading
ABOUT ME
Posts from 1+ Years of Travel
50,000 miles, 23 countries, 5 continents... and almost 2 years later. I've left the corporate world (and the US) to experience life.
Trying to break into the local scene is fairly difficult as a traveler. Where do you start? How do you meet locals if you don’t speak the same language? Can...
Buenos Aires is the most visited city in Latin America. It’s known as the ‘Paris of Latin America’ due to its nightlife, sophistication in the arts, and beautiful European architecture....
Buenos Aires is immediately charming. It feels warm, accessible, clean… and incredibly familiar. It looks like Paris, it looks like New York City, it feels like Rome and Madrid. Yet...
Artistic Locale The place to be in Córdoba is the bohemian neighborhood of Güemes. Speckled with early 20th Century architecture, Güemes has primarily been occupied by ‘starving artists,’ intellectuals and...
The Southern Hemisphere is starting to grow on me. There’s more ocean mass than its northern counterpart (20% more), creating an overall milder climate. With less land (50% less) and...
Our final month of Remote Year begins in less than 1 week and the tears are already starting to flow. While the last 11 months have been nothing short of...
Here in Argentina, everything starts a little later than usual. Life is paced by meals and mate (tea) rituals. No one even thinks about dinner until 9pm (if it’s summer,...