I arrived in wet, chilly Buenos Aires, Argentina with two pairs of shorts, three sundresses, four bikinis, a broken adapter and an Australian guidebook. To say that I wasn’t prepared for this trip would have been an understatement. I was in for a long cold week. The irony of the situation was that I’d actually… Read More Celebrating My Dirty 30 in Argentina
I turned 30 a couple of weeks ago. I was in Buenos Aires, Argentina (a birthday trip my mom and I took together) and feeling reflective, so I decided to create a list of “truths” or life lessons that I’ve accumulated 30 years into what I hope will be AT LEAST a 70-year stint on… Read More 22 Things I’ve Learned from 30 Years on Planet Earth
I started reading Mary Morris’s book Nothing to Declare: Memoirs of a Woman Traveling Alone while in Argentina last week and thought I’d share an excerpt that I felt spoke to the idea of travel addiction. On page 22 – 23, Morris describes the fascination travelers have with maps. “How do you know if you… Read More How do you know if you are a “Traveler”?
I’ve been collaging up a storm recently. My latest creation might be something of interest to you, fellow travel addicts, as I’ve used a lot of my old postcards and travel photos. I chose to use postcards because I have an entire drawer full of them (postcards are one of the few souvenirs I allow… Read More Decorating Ideas for Travel Addicts: Travel-Themed Collage
Before I left Central America and moved to Las Vegas, everything I owned fit into a backpack and a handful of boxes in my parents attic. Now, going on two years later, the list of things I own has grown from a backpack of volunteer hand-me-downs sequestered from an NGO-sponsored garage sale in Xela, Guatemala… Read More OMG, I have so much stuff! Or, Things a Former Nomad-Turned-Suburbanite Freaks Out About
I’ve got some spiffy trips in the works! In the next few months, I’ll be searching for ET, making my debut on national TV, playing with kangaroos and paddle boarding in the tropics. Read on for all the exciting details. Area 51 photo credit: NCReedplayer via photopin cc Next weekend I’ll be camping,… Read More Future Travel Plans: Area 51, Australia and Hawaii
photo credit: Conor Keller | fortysixtyphoto.com via photopin cc 1. “I’d like to be a kid again but only because naps were insisted, twirling in circles was acceptable, and the only password I had to remember was open sesame.” – Adar Burks 2. You will find more happiness growing down than up. -Author unknown 3.… Read More 13 Quotes About the Joys of Being a Kid (or Kid-Like)
Note from the Editor: Freelance writer Kiyo Wiesnoski brings us this next post. Kiyo, originally from the Bay Area in California, currently lives in Henderson, Nevada. She is an avid swimmer and is constantly on the lookout for the best pools in Las Vegas. Summer is just about over but before we bid summer adieu,… Read More The World’s Most Amazing Swimming Pools: A Photo Essay
Scroll through a travel blog or two and you’re bound to find at least one article coaxing or demanding you “ditch’ or “escape’, or even f*ck (in the words of one blogger) your cubicle and travel the world. While that may seem like harsh language for a three-walled inanimate structure, anti-cubicleism has become a… Read More In Defense of the Cubicle: It Ain’t THAT Bad. Really!
A few weeks ago, my car was in the shop, so Frankfurter “Frankie” von Hot Dog and I decided to make the best of the unlimited miles on our rental car and go on a road trip to Bedrock City. Bedrock is a semi-abandoned theme park and campsite located in a windswept field in… Read More Flintstones’ Bedrock City in Arizona: It’s a Yabba Dabba Doo Time!
