Best of Buenos Aires

Best of Buenos Aires

As my parents can attest, I am a huge fan of “Best of ______(fill in the city) ” ratings. Since high school, I have participated annually in submitting nominations for our local newspaper’s “Best of La Jolla” list and wait expectantly for the list of “winners” to come out in September (my parents now have [...]

Madrid

It was 2004 when I first visited Madrid.  I was on a high school trip with the French/Spanish club and our adventure happened to land just weeks after the train bombings that killed 191 commuters on their way to work.  Every where we went in the city, security was tight.  There was a barricade around [...]

Day Trip: Raleigh, NC

Marvin and I seek adventure. We’re both city slickers, and living quite literally on the beach (North Topsail Beach, to be exact, population: 955) is fun in the summertime but pretty quiet otherwise. Out of the ten condos in our complex and the complex next to ours, two are currently occupied over the winter. It [...]