‘Travel’ Archives
How to Protect Your Stuff While Traveling: Five Do’s and Don’ts.
You’ve heard stories like these before: a friend got her purse snatched while traveling, another got his laptop stolen, and yet another had a tug of war with a very determined camera snatcher on a bus in Paris. Any of these scenarios can happen to anyone and when it [Read More]
My Top Five Travel Essentials
When I’m traveling, my goal is to bring as little as possible, prevent spills, and breeze through airport security as fast as I can. That means multi-purpose products that are spill-proof and easy to carry. Here are items I always have with me when I’m on the road: I [Read More]
Road Tripping: Columbus, OH – NYC
I can finally say that I’ve traveled across the US by car from one coast to another. Around this time last year, I was on a four-day road trip from Columbus, OH, to Los Angeles, CA. Two weeks ago we drove from Columbus, OH, to NYC, stopping in Brooklyn, Hudson, Niagara [Read More]
A bird’s eye view of Machu Picchu
A highlight of a visit to Peru’s Machu Picchu is hiking up Huayna Picchu (Young Mountain), the mountain in the shape of a crouching puma that is in the background of every photograph of Machu Picchu (Old Mountain). Those who take the Inca Trail usually miss the hike, as [Read More]
Nature is Sacred
I’ve been pondering the meaning of sacred sites recently. Doing a google search for “sacred sites” results in pages and pages on religious sites such as churches, temples, pilgrimages, etc. In this context, I’ve been to many sacred sites myself, including [Read More]
Flashback to my Journey into Art
Ten years ago I embarked on a year-long travel around Asia, Australia, and Europe, visiting and meeting up with friends and family in various cities and spending a few months alone in France. The mostly solitary period in Europe was an immersion of art of every kind, a [Read More]
Top Five Things To Do in Siem Reap
My journey to Siem Reap was inspired by Wong Kar Wai’s movie In the Mood for Love. At the end of the movie, the main character played by Tony Leung travels to Angkor Wat, where he whispers his secrets to a hole, caresses it, and leaves, his secrets buried forever in the [Read More]
Samba, samba and more samba!
I just re-uploaded three videos I took of Samba dancing in Bahia, Brazil, the birth place of Samba. Brazil’s national social dance, Samba in Bahia is usually in the form of Samba de Roda (circle dance), with everyone forming the circle taking turn dancing inside the [Read More]
Hong Kong: Mid-Levels
This morning I had a conversation about Hong Kong with a friend who just returned from a first time visit there. We talked about Hong Kong’s palpable positive energy, its balance of western and eastern influences, and its unique kind of chaos – exciting yet organized, [Read More]
The Sound of Salvador – Land of the Drums
Vibrant and laid-back, Bahia in the northeast part of Brazil has been called the land of magic and land of the drums. Samba music was born here. Samba dancing, together with Capoeira, is a way of life. Many of Brazil’s most popular musicians, such as Gilberto [Read More]
