Dear Tasty Mexican Food, I Still Look at Our Photos
Dear Mexican Food, I’ve had a crush on you from afar all my life. As a kid, my favorite food was a cheese quesadilla from La Cocina (hold everything but the cheese, please – that’s right, just…
Oaxaca: Where Local Life Spills onto the Streets
I arrived in Oaxaca in the middle of a protest. I had heard Oaxaca was a bustling city – but I was expecting parties and parades, not sit-ins and political rallies. In fact, I had planned my…
3 Cancun Alternatives for Anti-Spring Breakers
The only time I ‘did’ spring break in college, my best friend and I went to the United Kingdom. Yep, we visited London and Edinburgh at the end of February. Obviously, there was no girls-gone-wild action. While…
My Top Ten Experiences in Cuba
Traveling in Cuba wasn’t all introspection about tourism and musing on economics – no, we definitely had a lot of fun on our people-to-people tour as well. We crammed a lot in our eight brief days on the island,…
Nomadic Life, Month Five (and Four and Three)
Nomadic Life posts are personal recaps of what life is really like when you live like a moving target. From personal challenges and triumphs to upcoming travel plans, here’s an insider look into my life out of a…
30 Countries in 30 Years
There are birthdays and then there are BIRTHDAYS. And I’ve had some good birthdays. There was the year we threw an international spy themed party and I wore a fascinator. There was the year Boyfriend took me…
Costa Rica in Review – What I Learned while Traveling There
I try to do my research before I travel to a new country, but of course there are always things you learn along the way. Here are some of the nitty-gritty details we learned about traveling in…
Struggling to See Arenal through La Fortuna’s Touristy Haze
La Fortuna was kind of a bummer. After six days in the luxury of Costa Rica’s beaches and cloud forests, I wasn’t prepared for the hard pavement that surrounds Arenal. I know there’s an undercurrent of tourism…
Exploring New Heights in Monteverde and Santa Elena
Monteverde is an interesting combination of calm natural beauty and adrenaline-pumping adventures. Just getting into town is a great example of this, as you wind around on a jarring dirt road, scooting awfully close to the edge…
Turning into a Beach Bum in Manuel Antonio
I’m not a beach person. Or so I thought. Turns out when you’ve been holed up in the gray labyrinth of a New York City winter, working hard at a new job and trying not to freeze…
