Random Reflections

Wayne's Bar, Nice, France

Experiencing 9/11 Overseas

  “America’s under attack”   Unbeknownst to me at the time, that was the message that Andy, my Contiki tour bus driver, received shortly after the first plane hit the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. We were on our way from Florence to Rome, just a week into a three and a half

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I Dream of Russia

I vividly remember searching frantically through the book stacks in my high school library, trying to find the perfect subject for a book report due just a few days later. The assignment was to write a report on a biography and I was struggling to find the perfect subject. After dismissing the likes of Benjamin

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My Seven Links

The goal of Tripbase’s My 7 Links initiative is “to unite bloggers (from all sectors) in a joint endeavor to share lessons learned and create a bank of long but not forgotten blog posts that deserve to see the light of day again.” The rules are pretty simple – a blogger is nominated to take

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