Each time I visit New York City, I feel like I get further and further from the traditional tourist obsessions. That’s not to say I don’t still enjoy them: we had to take a peak at the naked cowboy in Time Square and we couldn’t pass up just a few Broadway shows while we were … Continue reading
We walked down the dimly lit street in East Village as the glowing hot dog came into view above our heads. Down the steps into Crif Dogs we nonchalantly sought the mysterious phone booth. The wood stained box called almost no attention to itself. Tucked behind one edge of the wall, like all things worth … Continue reading
If you follow The Penniless Traveler on facebook, you already know that I traveled “Around the World in NYC” on Friday night. Accompanied by Jules Verne’s eccentric cast of characters in a small, Off-Broadway Theater on 45th street, I traveled from England to India to San Francisco and back again. New York City in and … Continue reading
Mid-day Saturday, we were exhausted from wandering the floor of Boston Comic Con and our stomachs were grumbling. One look at the line for food in the Seaport World Trade Center sent us across the street to search for food at Rosa Mexicano. When we saw the “gluten free menu” option listed on the sheet … Continue reading
“You’re going to die today!” the man shouted at me, gesturing to my chest with his assault rifle. I heard the air leave my lungs and felt my heart thud into my stomach as I stood frozen in shock. Then, from my spot in line outside the Convention Center, I looked down at my home-made … Continue reading
In the world this week, a couple of Washington, DC’s famous monuments received a little surgery. First on July 26, the Lincoln Memorial was splattered with green paint. Since then it has been closed to the public as teams of preservationists, national parks employees and cleaners work on carefully removing the stain. Now, the King … Continue reading
Happy Friday! For my first of many “Something Delicious” Friday posts, I want to share my favorite restaurant in Boston with all of you: Nebo. The Pallota sisters, Carla and Christine, recently moved the restaurant from the North End to Atlantic Wharf, but offer the same delicious meals (with a few new additions) in a … Continue reading
For a long-weekend every summer my family stuffs the car full of tents, camp stoves, tarps, food and booze and heads north to whatever campground we’ve chosen for the year. We camp with three other families and the selection of the campsite used to rotate among the adults–that is until the infamous “parking lot camping” … Continue reading
“Bear, bear, bear!” I had shouted at my sister earlier that weekend as she unceremoniously dumped orange remains from the cutting board onto the dirt at our camp site. The English language failing me, it was all I could instinctively verbalize. She rolled her eyes, kicking dirt over the spot where the smelly bear snack … Continue reading
More than 2 million passengers board 30,000 flights every day in the United States. They are the people we stand behind in line, the people we roll our eyes at for fumbling with their belt before walking through the scanner, the people we squirm to avoid bumping arms with during flight. And once in a … Continue reading
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