Overwhelmed With 'All That Architecture' 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 of the Czech Republic, located in Bohemia- or the western Continue Reading Bears in Alaska: Advice from a Passing Stranger Turnagain Arm below, Windy Point trail ahead
On a very narrow hiking trail overlooking Turnagain Arm, arguably the most scenic highway in the US (a stretch of road from Anchorage towards the Kenai Peninsula), I met a guy named Continue Reading My First Month in New Zealand New Zealand is known as the adventure capital of the world. I remember my older brother talking about his trip here in the early 90's and what stayed with me is his experience bungy jumping. He walked to the edge Continue Reading That Great Ocean Road: Continued travels through the Land Down Under Bells Beach at sunset
In the final scene from Point Break (Keanu Reaves’ 1991 blockbuster film about an undercover FBI agent tracking bank robber surfers), Patrick Swayze is released from handcuffs to surf a 50-year storm's monstrous 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 Native Alaskans and The Anchorage Museum Life in the Arctic
Adrenaline floods your body as you throw back the blankets of animal furs and climb into the cold air. It’s 3am. The sounds of drumbeats and men yelling ‘it’s time to hunt!’ seem to be coming from Continue Reading
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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.
Chef was amazing and it felt like I was visiting a family member’s home town- it was welcoming and I could have stayed for a long time. But friends of...
9/1, 7:45am train, Rabat to Marrakesh: I downed a piping hot glass of coffee just minutes before my train left for a 5 hour journey to Marrakesh. Initially, it looked like...
Here is a brief snapshot of my last couple of days in Porto and Lisbon: Porto is enchanting… Old buildings, cobble stone streets, history, and of course, port. Everywhere you...
(So this is what Rococo means…) The National Palace of Queluz was apparently one of the last Great Rococo buildings to be designed in Europe and is often referred to as the...
Surf roadtrip to Peniche? 13 of us spent a weekend in the famous surf town of Peniche, located north of Lisbon on a peninsula that juts out on the west coast of Portugal....
Parks and gardens (surrounding hospitals, historical homes and museums) in Portugal are often stocked with different breeds of ducks, swans, roosters, and the occasional peacock. There’s a black swan who mans...