Felix My driver, Felix, tells me he’s from Hopkins as I get into the front seat of his car. He’s just picked me up at the Sleeping Giant Lodge in Belize’s Cayo District, the lush western part of the country bordering Guatemala where one of many mountains is in fact […]
If you’re an adventurous animal lover, and you love going far, going deep and off the beaten track when you travel, Zambia should go up high on your list of places to go. And although Zambia is not at all undiscovered, it’s also not on the well-worn tourist track.
To this day, Kahvalti – the word for a traditional breakfast in Turkey – is by far the most fabulous, most delicious, most diverse in flavors and foods of breakfast in any destination I’ve visited. And somehow, thankfully, the recipes that make up a Turkish breakfast are relatively easy to […]
I spent a year living as an English teacher in Istanbul, fumbling my way through the challenges and culture shock that come with being a foreigner in a country you’ve never visited. Before remote work and digital nomadism became so prevalent, finding community, accommodation, and professional opportunities was a different experience.
To get from Naples train station to a tiny town called San Lazzaro in a region called Agerola, it’s a 30 minute ride on the Circumvesuviana and then an hour-long bus ride that winds up the steep precipices of the mountains behind the better-known towns of the Amalfi coast – […]
Reader, I’ve pulled this from the archives. I wrote about my trip to Sofia around the same time I started my original blog, in 2011. Around the corner from my old apartment in New York City’s East Village, where I loved in my 20s, there was an establishment called the […]
Cappadocia has become wildly popular in the decade since I visited. Nestled in and around the Nevsehir province in central Turkey, Cappadocia looks like a moonscape or the other side of a portal to another planet. With its strange rock formations, a history of hermit cave dwellers, places with names […]
I left sunny summery Santiago in the early morning. Two flights and four ham and cheese sandwiches later, we started our descent into Punta Arenas and the weather suddenly turned. I could see choppy white-capped water and thin grey clouds whipped against the plane window. The airport was pretty desolate, and […]
The first time I went to Berlin it was my first real solo trip and it changed my life, sparking a passion that eventually inspired me to move alone to Turkey for a year. On my second trip, I spent one week in Berlin and felt just as inspired. As […]
Reader, please note that I wrote this in the summer of 2010. This is a story for entertainment purposes as certain details are too out of date to be a travel guide. Bribery, alliances, medieval tradition, grandiose public displays of emotion, danger, violence. I read about Il Palio in Siena, […]