After a grueling first backpacking adventure into the Grand Canyon in 2002 with cheap hiking shoes, I upped the game and got better shoes when I returned in 2003. These became my trusty hiking shoes for the next decade, though I probably only wore them about 3-4 other times. As my mom and…
Category: Misadventures
The Monkey Queen
My friends and I encountered monkeys at various places in South East Asia – the first was Monkey Beach in Koh Phi Phi, Thailand, where a monkey climbed a woman and ripped an empty cup from her hands, so we knew to keep our distance. Two months later, we found ourselves…
Bus ride to Hoa Binh
While in Northern Vietnam, my friend had a classmate from Hoa Binh, a small hill town outside of Hanoi. My friend went in the morning and other three of us were going to join up with her that afternoon (after a doctor’s appointment– see that Misadventure here. Just as we were about to leave…
Mean Streets of Paris
French men are different than American men. I wore a knockout dress with a plunging neckline for the fancy rehearsal dinner at a Michelin Star restaurant and took the subway across town. I noticed that French men openly gawked at my low-cut dress, making me feel quite uncomfortable. I’m used…
Tokyo Train Tales
Written March 2003, when I clearly discovered my love of alliterated titles… Trains are the way of travel in Japan. My family and I used them countless times during our week-long trip over Spring Break. We bought a JR Pass (Japan Railway) that allowed us unlimited first class travel…
Le Meurice
After discovering that a family friend would be in Paris, I was invited to be his guest at a wedding on the Seine with a rehearsal dinner at a Michelin 3-Star Restaurant. What a treat! For the rehearsal, I wore a killer dress (more on that here) and was excited for the…