Identity crisis (1)
7/29/10 •
I wrote my first blog post on February 3, 2008. I had just quit my job and was en route to Costa Rica. My initial goal for the blog was fairly loose: to create a place to share my travel experiences, to meet people with similar interests and to build my writing skills. And I [...]
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Finding yoga paradise (3)
5/02/10 •
In mountain pose with eyes to the white-capped waves, I took a deep inhale. Exhaling, I spread my toes rooting myself to the foam mat and the bamboo floor. With each breath I captured the warm, fleeting breeze. The sunny-morning air granted my body flexibility. Encouraging us to enjoy every precious moment of the class, [...]
Not a wild-quetzal chase (4)
4/18/10 •
After beckoning everyone to marvel at plants in the African Violet family, our guide quickly sensed dissonance in the group. “Ok, who here wants to see a quetzal?” he asked. “Majority rules.” The Spanish couple unequivocally wanted to spot a quetzal. The three French women smiled and with sultry voices announced that they, too, wanted [...]
A dog’s life in Costa Rica (3)
4/15/10 •
Scanning the water’s edge for new scents, making paw prints in the moist sand and enjoying pastel sunsets at the end of the day make up these Pacific pooches’ daily routines. Not all dogs in Costa Rica have it so easy. Read my previous post about Costa Rican artist Francisco Munguía’s street dog exhibit in [...]
Old routines and new cravings (0)
4/08/10 •
On our third day in Vientiane, Laos last month, I realized that my friends at ContemporaryNomad.com and I had eaten at the same place for breakfast, the same place for lunch and the same place for dinner every day. It was then that I realized that as much as we like discovering new places, trying [...]
A call to bloggers (5)
4/06/10 •
After perusing the shops in the Phnom Penh airport, I sat down and began to contemplate the ways I might spend my last few minutes in Cambodia. My first thought was to purchase a hot fudge sundae from the Dairy Queen in front of my departure gate. As I glanced around thinking about how decadent [...]
Lessons from Cambodia (0)
3/10/10 •
“The Khmer people have opened their arms to the world and make any visit to the kingdom a humble lesson in the endurance of the human spirit. The past is not forgotten in devotion to their ancestors and pilgrimages to pagodas, but the future is embraced, as youngsters seize the day.” ~ A caption in [...]
Bizarre foods (1)
2/27/10 •
I observed tarantulas on every night hike I did last year in Costa Rica. Part of showing the secrets of the forest, the guide would pick up a branch and gently scrape it at the entrance of a hole at the base of a large tree. Inevitably, a tarantula would emerge. At that time, the [...]
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