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Happy New Year! I’ve landed safely on the other side of the world (again) and I feel great. It was such a natural recapturing of self to get off that plane, don my travel hat, and do my [...]

It’s almost midnight. December 26th, 2006. I’m leaving for Sydney, Australia in one, yes one, day and…I have absolutely nothing to wear. Sydney is chic, as is Melbourne. The Outback is rugged, [...]

Lisbon was followed by Lagos, a southern ocean town in the Algarve that offered much less frenzied a pace than the northern city of my flight lessons. It was breathtakingly beautiful, rocky [...]

Warning: this is a long, but fun blog. Enjoy at leisure… A city of seven hills, like San Francisco and Rome, Lisbon is a high-low adventure of altitudes (very hard to determine on maps: you start [...]

Madrid. I’ve been here before. It’s semi-familiar, but I feel as if I’ve grown so much since that trip that I’m seeing Madrid through new eyes. Now that I have the knowledge to actually compare [...]

Hi, hi…I’m back, sorry this took so long. I seem to have a lot of worried friends from lack of blogging, lack of photos.I’m fine, I’m fine…I’ve just been in my [...]

If I liked Bogota, Cartagena astounded me. It was a Technicolor odyssey of architectural sights, set inside a fairy-tale-like wall that surrounded the city like a fort. Well, it WAS a fortress [...]

Like most people, I had my ideas about Colombia. I knew of the horror stories dealing with drug cartels, burning coca fields, drug “mules”, Pablo Escobar and his empire in Medellin, political [...]

I guess I had a right to be worried… How does one compare of week of jet-setting amongst fabulous friends; three cities, five days, countless faces, places, and spaces to a rainy Panama? One [...]

The past week is a total blur…Living life, Ecuadorian style, takes stamina. At least the way I was living it!This was Ecuador, Round 2. From the plane, I was whisked to Sake, a restaurant ala [...]