Travel Memories Monday: A Faceless Anonymity

The stunning anonymity of this giant face in Florence, Italy’s Boboli Gardens strikes me even today – a year later and only in a photo this time around. This is one of the few pieces of art that I’m inexplicably drawn to – I’m not an art buff in the least but I turned a corner after well over an hour of just puttering through massive hedged gardens and there it was.
Bizarre.
Huge.
Beautiful.
A strong stone face with pearlized green streaks running through the cracks. If …

One full hour after starting our project we finally had the first layer of concrete blocks nestled next to each other, absolutely perfectly level and arranged in a large rectangular shape. Mitul and Grace, also volunteers from the Pop Wuj language school in Guatemala, carefully scrapped at the wet red clay while I was nearby hefting up each and every concrete block into tubs of pond water, allowing each block to soak for 10 minutes before taking it to Mitul and Grace. These concrete blocks were the first step …

Two years ago, nearly to the month, I stumbled across a blog that, quite literally, changed my life.
They dubbed themselves “The Lost Girls” and they were three women who quit their jobs in NYC to travel around the world together for an entire year…and what’s more, they documented the entire trip on their blog several years before other women travel bloggers were doing the same.
It was revolutionary to me. Women could do this? Like actually take off from the US for a whole year to travel?
Their blog came at …

It’s the peat. Ireland just has this certain something that makes the country feel incredibly unique; a something that I couldn’t quite identify for the first three weeks I spent in the country.
I’ve concluded that if Leprechauns, fairies and the such exist, then surely they all congregate in Ireland’s “Wild West.” From Galway City I drove through hours of brown-speckled hills weakly lit with the few and tiny bits of sunshine able to wrestle from behind gray rain clouds and drove into the heart Connemara.
And just for the …

The is the first guest post on A Little Adrift and it couldn’t be a better way kick it off. Dave and Deb, perhaps better known as ThePlanetD.com, have a lot of respect heaped their way from me for their biking adventure across the length of Africa in the Tour d’Afrique. They haven’t stopped there and have taken part in adventure travels all over the globe and are only going to add to those adventures next month as they leave Canada and their day jobs behind and plan to …

Ok guys, I am sitting here in my hostel in Czech Republic in one of the most beautiful little towns of the trip, Cesky Krumlov, and my heart is kind of clutching and, well…I’m getting a bit teary and nostalgic. Here I am taking a bit of relaxing time to finish reading my book by the pretty river that winds through the town (still reading Lolita) and all of a sudden it hits me that whole regions of this trip around the world are over.
Several other RTW travel blogs …

Hotel Tina (we stayed here the first two nights before heading over to the Locanda Starlight Hostel– highly recommend both!)with the beautiful Boboli Gardens done, we scheduled ourselves an appointment to see the two signature attractions in the city: the Galleria dell’Accademia with Michelangelo’s David and the Galleria degli Uffizi stocked with the most recognizable Botticelli masterpieces in the world. I can definitely wait in lines when the need arises, but the three of us agreed that it was worth the four extra Euros to schedule appointments (we paid …