Gift Ideas for your Travel Lover

The holidays are coming, so here are some gift ideas for your favorite traveler, at various price ranges: Bose Headphones  – $300-500 I can’t mention enough how awesome these noise-cancelling devices are for in-flight. Hands down, they are my favorite luxury travel item.   SD Cards – $10-20 A great…

Pretending to be Canadian/Australian

It’s no secret that American tourists have a bad reputation abroad. We are seen in stereotypes of being loud, obnoxious, culturally insensitive, paranoid, overweight conservatives who expect everyone to speak English, etc. I’ve often to been tempted to claim another nationality while travelling, especially when you experience outright bias or…

Seen from a Plane Window

Here are the craziest things seen from an airplane window:   Thunder/Lighting Storm in Southwest USA – We navigated around the storm, but still got quite the show for about 15 minutes. It was beautiful (and a little bumpy). Mt. Everest – My first view of the Himalaya mountain range was Mt.…

Moments in Time

I wish I could say that travel was all about the places you go, checking destinations off a list. But it’s not quite so easy. It’s also about when you were there. Places are ever-changing. They can be destroyed by natural disasters or war, evolve with a regime change, or even by…

The Journey Begins…

I’ve decided to start a travel blog…I’ve decided to start a travel blog because I want a collective place to organize my experiences and photos.  More and more, I’m finding that others are enamored with my adventures, so I want one place to share all of my thoughts and passions.  I’m not…