Tips for Spain
If you are ever in Spain, find a town with a festival - especially in the Andalucia region of south Spain. There is nothing like it -- the beautiful flamenco dresses, conquistadors, bullfights, music, festooned cantinas that [...]
If you are ever in Spain, find a town with a festival - especially in the Andalucia region of south Spain. There is nothing like it -- the beautiful flamenco dresses, conquistadors, bullfights, music, festooned cantinas that [...]
Las Vegas, Portland, Cannon Beach, Cozumel, Tulum, Isla Mujeres, Havana, and Pinar del Rio ~ dance floors, dysentery, beaches, sad parrots and lawyers, hysterical laughs, happy coincidences, shiny convertibles, cockroaches, doctors, henchmen, handsome men, con-men, crying babies, [...]
And finally – Monkeys!!! After scouring untold miles of rain forests for them, a family of howler monkeys took up residence in a mango tree across the road from my house in Playas del Coco. The [...]
I’m roaming Scandinavia with my parents, seeing family, tracing the paths of my dad's ancestors and connecting with each other. Our days are filled with beautiful, incredible scenery, a mystifying language, and quite a bit of [...]
Germany is a beautiful fly-over - it looks a lot like the Winona area from the air, except there are a zillion small towns separated by sometimes just a couple of miles of farm fields. I'm not [...]
I did not take my own advice and start probiotics two weeks before I came to Havana, and from midnight yesterday to this moment I've felt like I was going to die because I've been so sick [...]
Holy sh*t you guys. It's about 10:30 pm here and I was sitting on a high wall overlooking a river walk getting a little fresh air. I'd just come out of a flamenco show that I [...]
Oooooohhhhh. Today I found Spain. Don't get me wrong - Seville was nice and picturesque and interesting. I really enjoyed it. But this morning I arrived at Ronda, a small city I'm sure you've never heard [...]
Oh my God Seville... pronounced like Saveeya in Spain BTW - what a beautiful city. I mean the real-deal beautiful, where even though probably half of us are tourists, nothing feels very touristy at all and everything [...]
I am 10 hours into a trip to Rome and I haven’t even gotten out of Philadelphia yet. So far, I’ve been day drunk in La Crosse because of a long flight delay and a bartender with [...]
Seville, Day 2 (or 3, or whatever). This morning I set off in search of a convent. Don't get excited, folks - my love life isn't THAT bad and I won't be wearing a habit anytime soon. [...]
I made a mistake yesterday. A dumb one. I handed my wallet to a total stranger and I turned my back. I paid. Sounds impossible, right? I've traveled for tens of thousands of miles by myself. Why [...]
I went looking for the end of the earth, and I found it - in more ways than one. With my trusty Ford Fiesta rental car and my Google Maps gps, I wound my way to [...]
So I'm sitting on a bus that just crossed the border from Portugal to Spain, heading for Seville. I'm sad to be leaving because it just wasn't enough time - Portugal has many layers of interesting and [...]
OKkkkk - today I discovered what all the fuss is about in the Algarve... I mean holy sh*t - have a look at THIS! It's Praia Marenha with cove after cove of these magical beaches. Some [...]