Athens was a whirlwind of heat, history, and protesters. It all began with a happy reunion in the arrivals terminal between my mom and I, having said goodbye six weeks before. We were not, however, joined by my mother’s luggage, which turned out to be a blessing in disguise since the country-wide taxi strike forced us…

When I met Mark over two years ago on the same island we are waking up on today, I didn’t know that, corny as it is to type, my life was changing forever. I didn’t know I had found someone who shared my dream and vision for living an unconventional life and exploring the world. I…

So, I’m really stretching the limits of this Photo of the Week project. First, I retroactively changed one of the photos. Next, I took a still from a video. Now, I’m not even trying to pretend I took the picture.* But I’m okay with it. What started as a technical photography project has become more about…

While flying away from London marked the end of my six week adventure in the UK (well, technically one week of it was spent in Ibiza), it also kick started my two week adventure through another new region of the world- the Mediterranean. In the next two weeks I would experience lots of firsts: my first…

This quote has appeared on this blog before, but is so beautiful I believe it warrants a repeat. “It is not necessarily at home that we best encounter our true selves. The domestic setting keeps us tethered to the person we are in ordinary life, who many not be who we essentially are.” -Alain de Botton…