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Solda! Solda! Solda!: Are Costa Rican’s Outselling Their Own Country’s Tourist Appeal? 14 Jun 2012 | 01:11 am
It was our second day in Costa Rica. Luis, our zip-lining guide, had convinced us to go horseback-riding with his buddy, Alexander, who we could find, “fifteen minutes up the mountain, just past the s...
No Matter Where In The World, A Girl Always Finds A Mother 9 May 2011 | 09:05 am
On my first U.S. Mother’s Day as a mother, I thought I’d honor the five mothers I’ve had in my life. The catch is that only one actually gave birth to me. All the rest simply cared for me and nouris...
The Non-Reusability of Re-usable Eco-Bags 5 May 2011 | 03:51 pm
From Steve Madden to Stuart Weitzman to The Strand Bookstore in Union Square, New York City’s retailers have jumped on the ecological bandwagon. How? By handing customers their purchases in reusabl...
Do I have to catch my flight?: Airports that make you want to stay on the ground 14 Apr 2011 | 10:57 am
In honor of finally leaving my scarf at home and opening the front of my jacket, a happy, Spring-like offering: my favorite airports and why. Number 5: San Francisco’s International Airport Why do ...
Having Baby, Will Travel: Why Asia Made Me Not Fear My Daughter 31 Mar 2011 | 06:48 am
The other day, two specific somethings about my infant daughter made me smile. One, at just over one month old, she has dual French and U.S. citizenship. Two, my husband and I are each in the proces...
Check me out as a Guest Blogger at CheapoAir TravelBlog! 20 Mar 2011 | 07:12 am
Today, I was featured as a Guest Blogger on Cheap O Travel Blog, with the following article (LINK: http://cheapoair.typepad.com/guest-travel-blog/2011/03/global-unemployment-the-travel-industrys-salva...
Salisbury, Maryland: Where Water Girls are Raised 23 Jun 2010 | 01:02 pm
If you live in Salisbury, Maryland, you’d better love the Chesapeake Bay, and its main tributary, the Wicomico River. Otherwise, you would never survive our summer. “What time tomorrow?” my mother c...
One Evening, My Heritage Met Me on the Uptown 6, in Cherry Red Polos 28 May 2010 | 02:33 pm
“Jūs esat Latvieši?” I asked, my eyes nearly popping out of my forehead. “You are Latvian?” “Jā, Mēs esam!” answered the boy, his eyes and smile beaming from underneath his askew, cream-colored base...
Food Poisoining and Fairy Tale Evenings 22 May 2010 | 05:17 pm
“What time is it?” is my normal waking thought. This morning, instead, it was my stomach, and my temperature and my acerbic throat. At 3am, I had sent Indian food down the toilet, then buried my fre...
Where I Want to Be Published 19 May 2010 | 08:17 am
Ready to crawl into a storm drain, this one in Salta, Argentina, for a story! My Holy Grail, the thing that will tell me that I have really made it, is when I am published in The Best American Travel...
