Almost every time I go somewhere I am surprised by the amount of time I spend with my camera pointed down at the ground instead of up in the air. It’s almost exclusively because of the animals I find there. And even though there are dogs almost everywhere you go, I still felt compelled to … Continue reading
Thirty-six hours of travel later: a taxi, a bus, a second taxi, three planes, a car, a bus, and a van and we’re home in Haiti. Simultaneously exhausted and refreshed, I find myself looking back on the highlights of the past eight days we spent in Peru. Over the next week or so, I’ll post … Continue reading
Hello again! Sorry for the big unexplained hiatus over Christmas and New Year’s Eve, I’ve been traveling with my family since the 26th to Galveston, Texas and Cozumel, Mexico. We returned home late a few nights ago to Boston after flight delays in Houston–with the temperature jumping from 70 and sunny to 30 and slushy. … Continue reading
One of those things that I didn’t think I’d find myself taking pictures of in India… Dust bins (trash cans) here are so much more creative–and at times creepy–than they are in the US. Here are a few of my favorite dust bins from Bangalore. There was a great penguin dust bin at Mahabalshwar a … Continue reading
As we come to the end of our week-long Diwali break tonight, I thought I’d share some of the photos I took in Bangalore earlier this week. From the lights hung strung over major streets to the lanterns lit outside of houses and the firecrackers bursting in alleyways, the “festival of lights” certainly surpassed … Continue reading
Despite the fact that the median household income in Washington, DC is $59,290 (nearly $7,000 more than the median household income in the US: $52,762), it turns out there are lots of free things to do here. Our day on capital hill was spent witnessing the birth of a bill, looking at paintings by Nelson … Continue reading
Sitting on the couch, eyes transfixed on the flat-screen television in front of us, my younger sister repeatedly clicked the right arrow on her laptop keyboard–a HDMI cable connecting the laptop to the television screen so we could all see the image. She took us through her school trip to Italy and Croatia: down narrow … Continue reading
I have hundreds if not thousands of words written out in curly cursive in my diary–filled cover to cover from this twp-week trip to Nepal–and even more words still waiting to find an escape from the confines of my brain through my fingers on the keyboard. But so much of Nepal is visual and you … Continue reading
The Helambu Trek we ultimately ended up climbing would take us one week to complete. Each night after a difficult day of hiking, we were overjoyed when the colorful paint of local mountain villages came into view and we finally came to a halt in front of new lodging. Each tea house was cozy and … Continue reading
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