I found a round-trip plane ticket from Vegas to Fort Lauderdale for just 209 dollars. If you’re looking for a great site to book cheap travel, check out Bing Travel. I first heard about it on NPR and am now officially in love. It’s great because it uses previous previous ticket sales for that specific… Read More Future Travel Plans: Jamaica
My friend recently joked that unlike guys, girls have it easy when it comes to choosing a Halloween costume. “Girls just wear their underwear and bunny ears,” he complained. “Or their underwear and angel wings or their underwear and devil horns.” That was certainly evident last weekend when I attended what is widely considered the… Read More Halloween in Sin City
Last week I found a cheap ticket to Portland on the ultra-low-cost Spirit Air (77 dollars round trip!) and impulsively decided to fly to Portland for a weekend with my new travel buddy, Tom. Portland was by far the strangest city I’ve ever visited and that’s saying a lot (I’ve lived in New York city,… Read More Adventures in Portlandia
This past Memorial Day Weekend, I went camping at the Grand Canyon with a random German backpacker I’d friended online and a group of people I met through a local camping club. While I was a little apprehensive about spending a long weekend in the woods with a group of people I’d never met in… Read More My Adventures at the Grand Canyon
I Live in a Dollhouse by Himitsu Photo Source “You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it’s all right.” ~Maya Angelou They say that in times of stress and uncertainty, we tend to gravitate towards what’s comfortably familiar. By “they” I mean of course, my mom,… Read More Homeward (Re)Bound
I guess I could always try to make a living as a treasure hunter… I’ve been in Hawaii for six days now and haven’t found a job yet. There aren’t very many available and the ones that are, I’m either unqualified for (Korean egg donor) or I’m not yet desperate enough to apply for (golf… Read More If I Don’t Find a Job in Hawaii…
Before Nicaragua or Guatemala, before I got a job with an airline or lived in Japan and before this blog existed or I even knew what the word ‘blog’ meant, there was India. And the four months I spent hauling my sweaty self up and down mountains and away from stampeding elephants and spitting camels.… Read More Big News: I Have My Own Column!
I would have bought this blue Volkswagen bus and driven it back to California. I very nearly did. My roommates in Guatemala and I talked a lot about buying a VW van (they were for sale everywhere in Central in America and for as little as USD 600) and then driving it up through Mexico… Read More If I’d had 1,000 dollars…
I’d just arrived on the top of the volcano when it started to storm. From inside the visitors’ center I watched as the sky darkened and the rain came down in sheets. Thunder boomed overhead. “When does the last bus go back down?” I finally thought to ask. It was getting dark and I didn’t… Read More Alone and Stranded on a Volcano
Two days ago I noticed that my hair had mysteriously turned hippie on me. And not in a good way. It was long, scraggly, full of split-ends and so dry that if you’d rubbed a handful of it together you might have sparked a fire. In fact, my hair had become so dry and prone… Read More Hair Today…