Mesa Verde: cliffs, droughts, and other discoveries Lush green mountains on the way to Durango
Relief has arrived after 10 years of merciless drought in Southwestern Colorado. This was visible last week driving through lush hillsides and neon green valleys from central Colorado en Continue Reading The Great Butterfly Migration to Mexico Butterflies in the sky
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Many of us have heard of the Monarch Butterfly migration from Canada down to Mexico every year at the end of the summer, but Continue Reading The Perils of Peru Machu Picchu's moneyshot
As I enter my third week of living in Peru, I can easily say I’ve been blown away by the beauty of its people, landscape and incredible food. Like Mexico City, Lima was never Continue Reading About That Journey... The Inca Trail to Machu Picchu Me, overlooking the Cloud Forrest at Dead Woman's Pass
Last week, I returned to Lima from a 4-day Inca Trail trek to Machu Picchu. It was an excursion my friend and I had been planning for over Continue Reading Happy To Be Cold: Cold Water Swimming in December I stripped down to my bikini and gingerly stepped into the 48-degree water. The wool hat, puff jacket, running jacket, long sleeve shirt, stretch pants and running shoes with thick socks that I had been wearing just a minute before Continue Reading A Warm California Welcome
My introduction to living in Northern, CA has been accentuated with unprecedented wildfires, an earthquake, cold water swims, but above all, ceaseless beauty.
Just a few hours after my arrival into San Francisco, wildfires exploded across Napa and 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.
A friend of mine coined the phrase “You’ve been Spain’d” to refer to poor service here in Spain. This country, like Portugal, has come a long way in customer service...
When you hear the word ‘graffiti’, you may think spray-paint, vandalism and cryptic territorial signatures. Street Art, though a subcategory of graffiti, instead invokes artistic images in public spaces that spark discussions. Graffiti...
We like to joke that traditional Czech food is grey. And in truth, there’s not much color to it. Heavy in meat, salt and starch, it’s difficult to locate vegetables that have...
A Cafe culture has taken over beer-swilling Prague. While Czechs still drink more beer per capita than any other nation (on average, 143 liters per year for every citizen including infants and...
Do you remember Lidice? If you didn’t live during WWII, come from Germany or Czechoslovakia, there’s a good chance you’ve never heard of it. Lidice was a sleepy farming town, 22...
Prague’s beauty is mesmerizing. I find myself repeating the phrase “this is ridiculous…” every time I turn a corner to see what a new street will display. The capital city...
In the last 3 weeks, I visited a friend’s family in Bihač, Bosnia, an old coworker and her husband in Shepherds Bush, London, good friends I got to know during my time...