Safari Adventure in South Africa
If there’s only one thing you can do travel-related this year or next, or whenever you come up with enough money to go, I HIGHLY recommend an African safari! It is an utterly thrilling experience...
View ArticleVictoria Falls on Zimbabwe & Zambia
The day I finally saw myself standing before the enormous, thundering Victoria Falls, something prompted me to recall a certain childhood memory as I tried to ignore the suffocating humidity enveloping...
View ArticleI’m Moving to California
Temporarily! (As this post goes live, I will already have landed in Los Angeles to spend a few days with my friend Martha for her birthday who now lives in Burbank, and my other friend Nahid who’s also...
View ArticleFalling in Love with Colorado
When I initially decided to try out travel nursing within the United States, one of the states I originally had in mind was Colorado. While I was in California, I met a few travel nurses who couldn’t...
View ArticleThe Old City Hall Subway Station in NYC
Growing up in New York City, I have never thought twice about any of the hundreds of subway stations scattered all over the five boroughs. All I really cared about was knowing where I needed to get on...
View ArticleHiking the Annapurna Circuit Trek in Nepal – Il Ragazzo Italiano non Parla...
Every day in the evening or in the early mornings right after I woke up, I made a point to jot down (or should I say type out on my phone) how our day went during my entire trek in the Annapurna...
View ArticleEscaping Winter in NYC for Puerto Rico
Que Bonita Bandera When my friend Laura suggested we go somewhere for her birthday in the middle of a dreadfully long winter in New York, I couldn’t say no. With relatively cheap round trip flights...
View ArticleWeekend Getaway at Copake Lake
When I decided a couple of years ago to go back full-time at work and stay put in NYC, I knew what I was in for: no traveling extensively abroad like I used to. I get it, no more impromptu trips...
View ArticleStreet Art Spotted: back home in New York
I’ve been back in US soil for almost two months now, and although I’ve been so busy with the holiday season that just passed, and getting back into the swing of things [temporarily] at work, I still...
View ArticleOne Day in the Kingdom of Lesotho via the Sani Pass
“So, does anyone know anything about Lesotho?“, asks our tour guide. A few seconds of silence… “It’s considered the highest country in Africa“, I chimed in remembering a few things I read as I skimmed...
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