“Falta mucho.” That we still have a long distance to go before reaching the metro station is not what I want to hear on a day when I’m trying to cram all the sights on my Mexico City bucket list into a 14-hour period. I’ve come from the floating gardens of Xochimilco in the pure … [Read more…]
“Corona o Tecate?” It’s a picturesque question to be asked as I step aboard the deck of a brightly colored trajinera in Xochimilco. The gritty docks of this small and unassuming neighborhood in southern Mexico City unfold into a sea of narrow and long boats, each crowned with painted flowers, giving the landscape the appearance … [Read more…]
Dear Readers of Something In Her Ramblings, As I type these words from a sun-drenched patio in California, I find myself in a moment that I’ve yearned for so often over the past three years. When I last wrote, I bid farewell to you all to embark on a new chapter that posed a conflict … [Read more…]
“I suppose in the end, the whole of life becomes an act of letting go, but what always hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye.” — Yan Martel, Life of Pi To the Readers of Something In Her Ramblings, I’ve just returned to Los Angeles from a trip that took me … [Read more…]
In writing about Serbia, a landlocked country on the Balkan Peninsula of Eastern Europe, I’d like to convey two points — I made it to my 50th country – Serbia! Serbia is interesting My recent travels helped me reach a personal milestone of visiting 50 countries and country #50 just so happened to be Serbia. My … [Read more…]
I can’t recall exactly when my desire to see and know the world so deeply began. I grew up exploring the United States with my family extensively on summer road trips. On these excursions my mother would have my siblings and I all write about our trip each day in a journal. Perhaps this practice was … [Read more…]
Twelve hours. That’s all the time I had to explore the highlights of Athens on my recent trip to Greece. Of course this ancient city is worthy of far more of a traveler’s time, but time is a luxury I’ve rarely had as I’ve trekked through the world, and on this trip I chose to zip through … [Read more…]
When you tell people you’re going to Memphis, one of two things happens – they either greet your statement with a blank stare, eyes glazed over by a lack of anything to say about Tennessee’s second most populous city, or they go crazy over ducks. “You haven’t to go to the Peabody and see the … [Read more…]
Living with an Italian roommate as a study abroad student in Australia cemented ideas of Italy into my mind long before my feet had ever set foot in the country. At the time Italy was such a distant dream and I was so busting with curiosity that I’d spend many hours with Alessandra walking the … [Read more…]
Note: The following is a guest post by Lea Ann Christenson On Easter afternoon I found myself being whisked from Tokyo to Kyoto on the Shinkansen (bullet) train. Sitting alone in my comfortable seat, the Japanese countryside wooshed by at a speed so fast I couldn’t focus on anything in the foreground. Riding on a … [Read more…]
