A Really Really Really Really Long Walk

The group who started the 50mi Kennedy Walk

I once walked 100 kilometers in one day. We started at 3am, the four of us. It was an organized event so we weren’t alone but when I walked up to the finish line at midnight I had been alone for hours. Somehow, I thought it would be a good idea to do that long [...]

Travel in Rio de Janeiro

License Plate Rio De Janiero

Traveling to Rio de Janeiro from the Pantanal was a bit like hopping out of Never, Neverland and back into reality.  Rio is a vibrant, lively big city, known for it’s beach culture and carnival.  The Pantanal is known for it’s birds, quiet and swamp like atmosphere.  Traveling between the two was like traveling from [...]

A Night Tour of Washington, DC

JeffersonMonumentAtNight

Before leaving for our bit trip around the world we called Washington, D.C. home for nearly 10 years. In that time we’ve shown countless of our own friends around the city and dodged thousands if not millions of other tourists in the process. One of the worst things I can think of to do with [...]

My First Solo Trip Abroad

Gaudi Park, Barcelona, Spain

I needed to study Spanish and I figured there was no better place to do that than the Costa del Sol in Spain. That was after my parents strongly objected to studying in Central America. As part of my undergrad degree I had to learn a language. Spanish was a natural choice because I was [...]