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Arenal Volcano Erupting in Costa Rica

A Guide: Short Vacations & Why Costa Rica?

After taking a honeymoon that used up my entire year’s worth of vacation time before the end of January, I haven’t had the opportunity to travel much this year.  That doesn’t stop me from wanting to escape though, so weekend trips have held me over until my vacation days are replenished in January.  In March […]

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On Steve Jobs’ Legacy

I had a post lined up for today that focused on my upcoming trip to Costa Rica, but it seems more fitting to reflect on Steve Jobs’ passing and the ways in which he revolutionized technology and communication.  I first went to Europe when I was 12 years old.  My grandparents took me to see […]

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Voltage Conversions: What’s that mean for hair care?

So you’re going to be on vacation and you’re going to be taking photos, but you don’t want to look like you left every hair care tool you own back at home.  Blow-dryers and straightening irons take up a ton of space in your suitcase, so if space is an issue, you may forgo bringing […]

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Reading Signs Away from Home

Whether you can read the language or not, signs in other countries are often incomprehensible.  Yesterday my job had me working on languages that do not use Latin characters – namely, I was looking at Cyrillic for quite some time.  If you’ve never seen Cyrillic, just imagine that someone took the regular alphabet, added some numbers, […]

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NYC buildings in sunglasses on the High Line

Playing Tourist in Your Own City

Living in a city is very different from visiting as a tourist.  Tourists see the famous and crowded sites, they do as much as possible in a day and they have the luxury of avoiding their day-to-day life while traveling.  I’ve spent the majority of my life living in two cities that are often tourist […]

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Nielsen Office New York City

Travel for Appreciation

San Francisco is by no means geographically far from New York, but that doesn’t change the fact that the city is just different – the landscape, the vibe, the people – all different. Lately I’ve been down on NY and thinking there had to be something better than being cooped up in an office building […]

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Sunset and Golden Gate Bridge San Francisco

San Francisco by Foot

We didn’t intend to explore by foot, it just kinda happened.  I’ve been to SF enough times to know that it is too damn hilly to stroll around comfortably.  In the words of my husband, “this is a silly place to build a city.”  In his defense, this was shortly after I’d promised him that […]

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Doha Qatar in a Day

Doha is the last stop of our honeymoon, despite the fact that we still have 3 flights to get back to NY. Due to how the flights line up (or rather, don’t), we extended our stay here for 12 hours. Yep, 7am to 7pm.  Upon arrival, we were immediately were surprised by Doha. The skyline […]

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