Hi, I'm Lisa...traveler, writer, teacher and chickybus driver. I enjoy off-the-beaten path travel and exploring life here in the U.S. How did I get started on this journey? Click here to learn more.
Pasticceria Maria Grammatico, one of Sicily’s most renowned pastry shops. It’s actually traditional Sicilian marzipan sold in La Pasticceria Maria Grammatico, a famous pastry shop in Erice, Sicily. Maria Grammatico, the mastermind behind these sweet creations, has elevated this traditional Sicilian
Photo by Sammie Chaffin on Unsplash Embracing the Unknown: My Travel Story Traveling has always been an exhilarating adventure for me, especially when it involves a bit of risk-taking. While I do plan certain aspects of my trips, I also love the spontaneity that comes with leaving some things unplanned. This blend of structure and flexibility has led to some of the most memorable experiences of my life. I remember showing up in Sri Lanka with no concrete plans for a five-week trip. All I knew was that I wanted to visit Kandy and explore the northern regions. The thrill of not knowing exactly
When I first spotted him in the Aleppo Souq (market) in Syria, I thought–he looks like a body builder. An Arnold Schwarzenegger lookalike, perhaps, but not exactly. See, he was built. Really built. And I’d never seen anyone quite like that in the Middle East. And I was taken aback
If water stands motionless in a pool it grows stale and muddy, but when it moves and flows it becomes clear: so, too, man in his wanderings. —Muhammed Asad, The Road to Mecca If I were to sum up 2010 in one paragraph, I would say that it was a
I’d love to get to know you, my fellow travelers, better (and to see which of you I’m most similar to.) How? By playing a simple game called “Would you rather….?” using travel-related situations, some of them a (tiny) bit extreme. I highly recommend this for long bus journeys, by
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It is a paradisematic country, in which roasted parts of sentences fly into your mouth. Even the all-powerful Pointing has no control about the blind texts it is an almost unorthographic life. One day however a small line of blind text by the name of Lorem Ipsum decided to leave for the far World of Grammar.
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Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at the coast of the Semantics, a large language ocean. A small river named Duden flows by their place and supplies it with the necessary
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This is some dummy copy. You’re not really supposed to read this dummy copy, it is just a place holder for people who need some type to visualize what the actual copy might look like if it were real content. If you want to read, I might suggest a good
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