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 Finding the Local Scene in Buenos Aires 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 you be safe and adventurous at the same time? It’s Continue Reading Move Over Fear, Curiosity is Here to Stay Curiosity at its finest (photo credit: theodysseyonline.com) “I have no special talents, I am only passionately curious.” -Albert Einstein The word ‘curiosity’ has been getting a lot of attention lately. So much so, in fact, that it may 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 It Was Just an Experiment: A Housesitting Lifestyle It was just an experiment…
These last 3 months were a trial run in a new lifestyle experiment. The goal was to be a house sitter up and down the west coast of the US while visiting friends and family. I'd 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
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...