An article I wrote for the Matador Network: The World’s Largest Independent Travel Magazine was published this morning. !!!!!!!!! I know, right? “Get published in Matador” has been on my life to-do list ever since I first discovered the webzine two years ago. Seriously. It’s been right up there with “Write a book”, “Learn French”… Read More I’m in a Magazine!
I’ve been studying Spanish in Guatemala for the last few weeks now and in the process I’ve come up with a few observations that might benefit anyone interested in coming here to study: 1. Spanish lessons cost anywhere between US two and six dollars per hour for one-on-one private tutoring 2. It’s impossible to find… Read More Spanish Schools in Guatemala
Here’s a recap of everything that’s happened since I started neglecting this blog (Um, yeah…Sorry ’bout that): My mom came to visit, I went zip-lining, took up salsa dancing, toured a coffee plantation, visited a hippie village, came down with a bad, bad case of food poisoning and then moved three hours away to a… Read More A Brief Update
Yesterday I was taking a nap when I heard a noise and then felt something fall on my forehead. Thinking that we were having an earthquake and that part of the ceiling was crumbling on top of me, I sat up and swatted at my forehead. And when I turned around, this ‘little’ guy was… Read More A Surprise Visitor
So it won’t be on an episode of Cribs anytime soon (even the Guatemalan version), but my new apartment is not without it’s perks. The most important being that it’s near the center (read: safe) part of the city and it’s still reasonably priced. It certainly beats the last two places I rented when I… Read More My New Crib
Agua Volcano, Arch of Santa Catalina, La Antigua Guatemala by Rambling Traveler It’s been a week since I left my job and probably the biggest thing that’s happened to me in the last 168 hours is the realization that I hate being unemployed. Hate it. Hate. It. Which is pretty ironic considering I spent the… Read More Future Travel Plans
I’m sorry I haven’t written much (alright, at all), recently. But it’s really all my job’s fault. If you haven’t flown across the continental US in the past couple of weeks, then you can count yourself as one lucky person, because there’s been nothing but flight delays and cancellations due to some pretty freaky weather.… Read More More Posts Coming Soon!
Happy belated New Year! If you’re wondering how I spent my New Year’s or what I did with those six free airline tickets, well here’s a recap of the last two weeks of my life: * I went to New York with my friend Kanako * I was there a total of 36 hours… *… Read More My Life: An Update
My friend Kanako is visiting from Hong Kong this week and today we just discovered that my mom has six buddy passes that will expire at the end of this month. For those of you unfamiliar with my life and therefore most likely thoroughly confused with that last sentence, let me fill you in. My… Read More 5 Days, 6 Free Airline Tickets to Anywhere…Where Should I Go?
I might lose my job. I say might because right now everything is up in the air, but it’s looking like I’ll be unemployed again starting the end of the January. I’ve known since I started that this might happen. I was hired on as a seasonal (I.e, temporary), employee which means that I was… Read More Soon to be Unemployed?!