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 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 Remote Year Is Over, My Life Isn't PolarSteps: my stops on a world map According to my travel-tracker app, PolarSteps, in the past 13 months, I traveled 41,698 miles, through 21 countries. My homes consisted of 13 different apartments (one for each month), but Continue Reading Mexico City from a Local's Point of View: secrets to a happy and healthy life Mexico City from Chapultepec Park Before I arrived in Mexico City, my premeditated fears revolved around pollution and crime. My vision included a heavy dark cloud settling over shanty towns that stretch to the horizon, people lurking 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...