Tag: travel
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A Starting Point: Five Tips for International Travel
International travel. The very phrase holds connotations of adventure and excitement and respite from routine. Planning it can be overwhelming, especially if you’ve never done it before. There are the obvious things to consider, like checking into visas and shots. But after that, the list of choices you have to make turns into a web…
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Philadelphia: Where History Meets City
I first met Philadelphia some 7 years ago as a tourist, visiting a prospective grad school program. I ended up moving to New York but have always enjoyed Philly as a day trip adventure destination. Now that I live in Pennsylvania, Philadelphia and I have become better acquainted and I’m always adding to my list…
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Life Lessons Learned the Hard Way
11 years ago this week I boarded a plane to Honduras. I was 18 years old, 2 months from my high school graduation, and a little smarty pants. I had been to Honduras once before for a 10 day mission trip and had “fallen in love” with the country. Well, that’s what I thought anyways. …
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One Last Summer Hurrah: San Diego
Today is Wednesday, my last day of summer vacation. Which means, last weekend was my last weekend of ‘summer’ (in teacher terms, of course). It’s important, as an educator, to use my summer breaks well because I don’t have the liberty of deciding when my next break will be. Fortunately my friends Jenn and Shannon…
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Baltimore by Day
International travel is my favorite, but sometimes I think I need a trip and I don’t have a whole week or $1K to spend. That’s when I’m glad I live in eastern Pennsylvania. One of the best things about eastern PA is it’s proximity to other places. I live 5 minutes from the toll road,…
A Pañuelo World 