The Getty Center in Los Angeles sits sentinel on the faded, olive green hills to the west of Hollywood. It’s a sprawling, artistic estate with glistening white marble construction that frames the surrounding scenery with poetic picture frames built into the building’s architecture. I so easily forget parts of my own home; as I travel …
My friend Jenn is a long-time friend from Florida who also made the move to Los Angeles after college. Our M.O. was long hikes through the mountains surrounding LA to rid ourselves of the city-angst. When I started talking about my RTW trip we road-tripped it up the California coast to San Francisco to test …
My recent whirlwind tour of the US with my job at Geeks Without Bounds gave me pause recently when I thought about all I have learned in the past six weeks. I marvel at the fact that I had never even heard of hacker and maker spaces less than six weeks ago and now I …
Right here and now I am going to cop to my own travel snobbery . . . I used to never ride public transit in the US. That’s what your car is for. . . Over the past year of world travel, I gamely embraced the adventure of using rickety chicken buses in Central America, …
I beg you to look at this ancient bronze parade chariot from the 6th century BC and not be wowed; it’s inlaid with ivory and stands as one of the coolest things I saw at The Met in New York City. Museums are one of those things that can be really hit or miss . …
I didn’t know that the Hollywood Walk of Fame concept extended to Rock Walk of Fame at the Guitar Center on Sunset Boulevard. Right there in front of the doors to the Guitar Center are the handprints of rock legends, icons of the music industry who left an imprint on the world with their music …
Sitting down on the stained cement curb or worn bench overlooking a market is one of my favorite places to hang out in a foreign country—and not because I like the burning scent of urine that floats up from below, unwelcome but eternally present, or even necessarily the view of the market, busy and often …
Happy Fourth of July from the Washington Monument in DC! An old friend of mine from middle school lives in DC while she undergoes training with the government, so I made a pitstop into the city to see her after staying in New York for a week. Being my first Fourth in the city, she …