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 A New Zealand Love Song The nighttime howl of a hound dog kept me awake last night. It pulled at my heart strings and sent my own dogs (Chewie and Rula, my house sitting mates this week) barking. It was also a keen reminder that 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 Adelaide, Australia: Exotic animals, extreme sports, and not drinking in wine country Sea Cliff, my beach in Adelaide I felt completely at home in my beach suburb of Adelaide, South Australia, a city of about 1.3M with a similar layout to Philadelphia nestled in Australia’s wine region capital (one Continue Reading When Summer Means Winter: Health and Wellness in Córdoba, Argentina The Southern Hemisphere is starting to grow on me. There’s more ocean mass than its northern counterpart (20% more), creating an overall milder climate. With less land (50% less) and only 11% of the world’s population, there’s less pollution. All 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
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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.
Arriving in Ireland I stepped off the plane on a sunny afternoon to descend a flight of stairs onto the tarmac. Looking up, I took in the enchanting Emerald Isle, otherwise...
The Rules of Coziness It seems we need to create a practice around everything nowadays. Simple concepts need books to define them and classes to teach them… like meditation and...
It was a beautiful fall day in New York when I flew to Edinburgh, Scotland. I was departing from a military base/commercial airport outside of Newburgh, New York and I...
Yin and Yang The iconic Bondi Iceberg Club is an ultra white 4-story rectangular building built into the cliffs of Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia. Light blue ocean waves pound...
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...
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...