The horizon is glowing gold.
Why? Because two thrilling travel-themed events are rising up in the near future, and you should know about them!
First, on September 14, 2010, over a dozen cities across the continent will hold an event called “Meet, Plan, Go“: an interactive panel discussion on how to take a career break and follow your dream of traveling!
Want to know who is the Boston coordinator for this event? I am! [...Read More!]
We need your help!
In exactly two months, an amazing group of Ghanaian students and teachers from Youth Creating Change of Ghana is scheduled to leave their county for the first time. For three weeks this August, these hard-working Ghanaians will study and present in the United Kingdom for the return half of a remarkable educational exchange. That is… if we can raise the funds!
“This Cross-Culture exchange is the best programme I [...Read More!]
Very long story short, in May of 2010, I stalked the world’s number one travel blogger, Gary Arndt. Happily, instead of getting tossed in jail, I ended up being invited to travel with Gary for a week in Spain, fully funded by the Valencia Ministry of Tourism!
It was fascinating, fun, and full of flippin’ fabulous five-star food.
In yet another stroke of generosity, Gary just changed the guest posting policy for his [...Read More!]
Let’s play a game called “How many ridiculous elements can you find in the 2010 U.S. Census Race form!” Study the photo above and chuckle. I’ll start, and you add on.
1.) There is no box at all for Arab or Middle Eastern.
2.) Where do Cape Verdeans (a Portuguese-creole-speaking island off Africa with a big population in Boston) check?
3.) “Negro”???!!!!
4.) Should European “Spaniard” really be under “Latino/Hispanic”? There are entire college courses [...Read More!]
We interrupt your regularly-scheduled travel blog to bring you an extremely important update on pineapple-eating technology.
“You HAVE to see this,” declared my cousin Eric the moment I entered his Manhattan apartment on my jaunt to New York last week.
“What is it??” I gasped in anticipation, expecting something as miraculous as a pet unicorn, given my cousin’s worshipful tone.
Eric reached into a kitchen drawer and withdrew… a gleaming silver rod with a [...Read More!]
Thrilling! My interview with Chris Christensen about volunteering in Ghana has just been published on Chris’s world-famous site, Amateur Traveler Podcast!
For the full interview homepage on Amateur Traveler, click here, my dear.
Or, if your finger is a tad lazy, the entire interview can be played right here, by clicking this button:
Amateur Traveler Episode 234 – Travel to Ghana
If this chat whets your appetite, there are over 90 articles on this very [...Read More!]
Let’s sing a little (slightly amended) Joni Mitchell:
“Don’t it always seem to go… that you don’t know what you got ’til it’s gone [for nine months]?”
As already discussed, I am newly in love with my natal country after returning home from so many months away!
So to sing its praises, here are three MORE reasons why the United States, for all its admitted problems, is fabulous.
1.) Bountiful American BRUNCH!
My hands [...Read More!]
What you are about to read is geeky, but don’t run away! It has direct applications to your non-techie life… just wait.
A WordPress “Plug-in” is defined as an outside program you can search for, upload, and install into your WordPress blog for added functionality. One Plug-in example is the cute “Share and Enjoy!” bar you see directly below this article. My WordPress theme didn’t come with this: I had to find [...Read More!]
I am drooping like spinach in a frying pan right now due to jet lag… but I haven’t missed a single day of blogging since that night I was ill on Ko Phi Phi in Thailand, seven months ago (and before that, even longer) so the show will go on! Commitment feels good.
I am OVERJOYED to be back home in Boston with loved ones, after nine great months abroad. Now, as [...Read More!]
If you are a Twitter master, this article will be a tad, “Ho hum yawn yawn.” Therefore, just look at the pretty pictures from Alicante, Spain and go along your merry way.
If, however, you are like I was a few months ago and really don’t get what all the fuss is about, regarding that strange blue bird-ed site called “Tweetah” or “Twadder” or something, here is a concrete list of four [...Read More!]