Category Archives: Nature
Fun in the Fog
Last Friday, while on vacation in the motherland, I got to spend a few hours in Tagaytay with my cousin and her family. Located a little more than 50 kilometers outside of Manila, it is the perfect day trip or weekend getaway destination for those looking for cooler temperatures and stunning landscapes – with views […]
Farsickness
I want adventure in the great wide somewhere I want it more than I can tell — “Beauty and the Beast”
The Charm of Charleston
I hope those of you here in the U.S. enjoyed your Fourth of July BBQs and fireworks. My family is spending the week in Charleston, SC. I mean, what more appropriate way to celebrate the country’s independence than to explore the first state to secede from the young Union, right? ;) Although this is only […]
Sightseeing
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. — Marcel Proust
Under the Bahamian Sun
I have a confession to make: I do not love beach/resort getaways as much as most people do. It’s not that I don’t find them enjoyable; it’s just that they do not match the idea I have in my head of what makes for an ideal travel experience. Still, when an opportunity to go island-hopping […]
My Corner of the World
Emo shots from a few years back. (Or maybe I was just watching out for snakes.) In my entry about spending my birthday in the Scottish Highlands, I mentioned slipping at the peak of a hill and rolling all the way down while on one of my childhood adventures with my cousins and brother. When […]
A Nerdy Kind of Love
Hyde Park. March 12, 2012. This is so cute. I want this. But with an extra-nerdy twist (i.e. the book would be a Chemistry or History textbook … or all three books of the “Hunger Games” trilogy). —– Correction (5:36 pm): My friend, Guillermo, has just texted to inform me that this is hipster love, […]
Bens, Glens and Lochs
See you later, tour bus… As I was ringing in 2012, I decided to start a personal tradition: I would schedule my most special vacation each year on my birthday. Special meaning not the sunbathing-on-the-beach kind of vacation. It has to be thrilling and something I have not previously experienced. I think it would be […]
