Naples, Italy, is a city renowned for its rich history with stunning architecture, ancient ruins and lovely piazzas—not to be confused with pizza, which by the way, is fantastic there. It is, after all, the birthplace of pizza. Naples is also known for its graffiti, which is…literally…everywhere. In many cases, it is […]
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Eat, pray, love? Drink, bike, shop? Can travel help with the grieving process?
Nearly a year after losing my mom to metastatic small cell lung cancer, I was still grappling with waves of grief. As the one-year anniversary approached, I felt an urgent need to escape—to embark on a journey that would take me far from my regular life and, hopefully, offer some […]
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Contrasts of Japan / Stories from the Land of the Rising Sun
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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Random Travel Moment #6: Meeting the Exorcist Asst. Director in Amman, Jordan – chickybus
The Assistant Director of the Exorcist? In Amman, Jordan? Pretty random and yeah, just a bit bizarre. What the heck would…um…possess someone to claim that identity? And why did he choose to speak to me and my 12-year-old Circassian-Jordanian friend Shamel? And was he really who he said he was? […]
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Random Travel Moment #2: Lunch With a Rasta-Like Panamanian Beach Dweller
In a matter of minutes, I went from having a large/lovely beach pretty much to myself to having lunch with a leftover hippy/beach dweller/Rasta-like guy and then, briefly, being part of a quirky party he was having under his private lean-to. How the heck did this happen? Well, Random Travel […]
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