Next week I’ll be heading to Puerto Rico for four days. The first and last time I visited Puerto Rico I was 13 years old. I remember eating a fried banana, driving past rows of Fruit Loop-colored houses made of cement, and finding a singing Coqui frog in my cousin’s bedroom. I’m sure this trip… Read More Upcoming Trips: Puerto Rico, Antigua and the Sundance Film Festival
According to Oprah Magazine, a spontaneous, risk-taking personality type is: “Action oriented, curious, outgoing and lives for new experiences. You are drawn to risk-taking and aren’t afraid to fail. Generally restless, you tend to job-hop or choose a field that offers constant novelty.” When I first stumbled across this in an article entitled “Who are… Read More Are you a Risk Taker?
If you’ve been wondering where I’ve disappeared to these past few weeks, you can look no further than the International terminal at the airport in San Franicsco. It seems that lately I’ve been working so many 17 hour shifts (yes, that’s 17 hours straight), that I’ve practically taken up permanent residence in the airport. I’m… Read More How far would you go to be able to fly for free?
I don’t buy souvenir’s when I travel because frankly, I don’t see the point. Do I really need some tacky fridge magnet shaped like a sombrero to remind me that I went to Mexico? Um, no. Thank you. And ditto with hula girl dashboard dolls from Hawaii, Nevada license plate hand bags from Las Vegas… Read More Vacation Souvenirs: Why Do We Buy Them?
Photo by Tudor Costache The Taken by the Wind blog has sort of been taken out to pasture lately; neglected, abandoned. I could say that it’s because I’ve been too busy apartment-hunting or studying for the GRE to write, but the truth is that I just think that I’ve grown tired of this subject-matter. I… Read More The Future of this Blog
This past 4th of July I met a man who’d had his telephone area code tattooed to his shoulder. I was dumbfounded when he told me this. We were sitting around a bonfire in Santa Cruz, California when the topic of tattoos came up. “But…Why?!” was all I could think of to say in response.… Read More The Patriotic Tattoo
Alice in Wonderland by Annie Leibovitz “The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.” – G. K. Chesterton “So how are you adjusting to life back in the US?” That’s a question I’ve gotten asked… Read More Alice in Americaland
Americans don’t travel abroad for a simple reason: they don’t want to. … Read More Why don’t more Americans travel abroad?
I found these Vintage Flight Attendant Uniforms on Pradagirl‘s flickr page. We’ve come a long way since flight attendants were required to dress like pole dancers, no? Wow, talk about a little added leg (room). Can you imagine what a SouthWest flight attendant would say if she were asked to wear that today? I think… Read More Prepare for Take-Off: Sexy Stewardess Uniforms of Yesteryear
In two weeks my parents are going to Kenya to help start a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center. Their hope is to eventually create a farm where the recovering addicts and alcoholics from the Nairobi slums can learn how to grow their own crops. I’ve been put in charge of researching slum life in Kenya,… Read More ‘Women-Only’ Tribe in Kenya