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 A Guide to Christchurch, New Zealand I was nervous about my trip to Christchurch, New Zealand. The more people I talked to, the more I regretted having booked a 10-day house sit there. “There’s not much to do…” “It’s still being rebuilt from the earthquake…” “You Continue Reading Living in a Tree: A Weekend in the Amazon You know those mornings when you wake up, stretch, smile at the sun, breath in the clean air... and then notice a tarantula the size of a dessert dish about 8" from your face? This was one of thosemornings.
Events like these Continue Reading From Grey to Color: Finding Healthy Eats in the Czech Republic 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 not been overcooked, covered in smoked meats, or loaded with Continue Reading Simply Alaska: A Land of Extremes Summer in Alaska?
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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 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
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...