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 Travel Hacks for a Life After Remote Year 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 incredible, most of us are bracing for real life to Continue Reading Sunflowers in the City: Portland, Oregon Portland: A sunflower in an alleyway.
Portland, Oregon is where it’s at. Where else can you find massive sunflowers lining alleyways, roses lining street corners, and city parks with 5,000 or more acres? Perfect lawns and overgrown 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 Simply Alaska: A Land of Extremes Summer in Alaska?
My home in Haines
A house sitter opportunity titled 'Summer in Alaska?' caught my eye. Is that a rhetorical question? I applied and was accepted, securing a trip to Alaska after my 3 months of Continue Reading An Outing With the Cairns Yacht Club: Cairns, Australia In the land of sugar cane, crocodiles and the Great Barrier Reef, Cairns, Australia has a hidden gem: the Cairns Yacht Club (or CYC as it's referred to). An inconspicuous boatshed sits across from some of the hottest tourist attractions in 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.
Growing up in the ’80’s during the Cold War, the Red Scare, remnants of McCarthyism… and of course, the movie Red Dawn with Patrick Swayze, had anyone and everyone in...
Photos from morning runs: I always had a gym membership back at home in New York City and would mix up classes (spin, yoga, boot camp) with a day or...
Inevitably, when you’re country-hopping for months at a time and catching up on a country’s history (recent to antiquity) on the airplane ride to said country, you may not understand...
I can’t remember what my initial expectations were of Israel, but I was happily surprised at what we stumbled upon. Instead of an endless desert with bombs going off left and...
Our guide in the Sahara desert, Mubarak, made a point about the cave nomads we visited: ‘They’re only happy because they don’t know any better. If they were educated, they...
As most of my family and friends know, I was in a major car accident in 1997, here in Paphos. I spent the following week in Nicosia (Cyprus’s capital), mainly...