How do I get in touch with locals and the culture? Glad you asked! This is the third post in a series on getting in touch with locals during travels. Check back for more, or subscribe via email to never miss a beat.… Read more
I have my ways of getting touch with local culture. In the past two editions of this
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Day 122: Getting in Touch with Locals (How I Roll, Part 3)
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Day 75: Getting in Touch with Locals (How I Roll, Part 1)
How do I get in touch with locals and the culture? Glad you asked! This is the first post in a series on getting in touch with locals during travels. Check back for more, or subscribe via email to never miss a beat.… Read more
On my own, I’m kind of a quiet traveler. I can be happy browsing the local culture,
March 17, 2011 · Read full story · Comments { 8 }
Day 40: Let Me Whet Your Travel Appetite… Give Me 40 Seconds
Tell me: what have you always wanted to do? Where have you wanted to go? Why aren’t you doing it now?
If you’re here, traveling the world is probably something on your mind. Maybe it’s amazing and unreal, almost unattainable, but let me tell you that it’s not. Whether you want to enjoy your holidays in Spain… Read more or journey
February 9, 2011 · Read full story · Comments { 9 }
Day 39: Six Degrees of Separation in a Small, Small World
Who do I know that you know?… Read more Normally, I wouldn’t think to ask this question except there have now been several — almost freaky — incidents where I’ve come to meet someone in some random part of the world to find out they have encountered someone I know. It is a small freakin’ world, people, and the more I travel,
February 8, 2011 · Read full story · Comments { 12 }
Day 2: Coffee, a Spice of My Life, Around the World
Oh, coffee.… Read more We have a love-hate relationship, you and me. Sometimes, I drink too much of you; you make my hands shake and my stomach hurt. Other times, I drink a bit and I’m more productive than I could ever be, writing a zillion words per minute and staying on task. I love you, and I hate you; still you
January 2, 2011 · Read full story · Comments { 40 }
Day 1: Will I Ever Celebrate New Years in the States Again?
Being January 1st, your assumptions that I have a massive New Year’s headache and want nothing more than a slurpee and movies on the computer to make me happy are correct. Still, I’m in a reflective mood despite my current situation. It struck me that last night was my 4th consecutive year abroad for New Year’s Eve, and I wonder … Read more
January 1, 2011 · Read full story · Comments { 5 }
What has been the best year of your life?
In one of my conversation clubs in school here in Ukraine, I asked my students what the best year of their life has been. Questions like these, followed with a simple, “Why?”, are a great way to get them all to talk (my main goal for my classes), while also killing a ton of class time. However, a lot of… Read more
January 15, 2009 · Read full story · Comments { 5 }
Guatemala Warning
I just received an email from the director of the Guatemalensis… Read more language school in Xela, Guatemala about a warning for the Tajumulco volcano area that might be of interest to those planning to travel down south. The Tajumulco volcano is the highest point in Guatemala and often frequented by tourists.
The U.S. Embassy in Guatemala reports the following:
“Rumors of
August 14, 2008 · Read full story · Comments { 5 }
Ok, just give me a coke.
There are a few things in life that make me immediately happy, and drinking a nice diet cola is one of them. I don’t know what it is exactly, but when I get a taste of that carbonated fake-sweetened water, I feel as though my frown turns upside down. But, what’s a girl to do when some place doesn’t offer… Read more
March 14, 2008 · Read full story · Comments { 0 }
El Fin Del Viaje
El fin del viaje. After Copan, the end of the trip was inevitably drawing near. It sounds silly to say this, but we felt as though we had come full circle, in more ways than one. Not only were we exiting out of the same city we had arrived in nearly 8 weeks before, but this time our perspective of… Read more
February 27, 2008 · Read full story · Comments { 0 }
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