Costa Rica is the new hotspot for Americans to go and experience nature at it’s best. Normally that would be a red flag for me to stay away but I can’t…Costa Rica is awesome. There is so much to do in a country that isn’t that big. Get to San Jose and rent a car and drive around the country. There are a million different things to do, something to suit everyone. In the center of Costa Rica are the Tabacon Natural Hot Springs (above) which are stu…
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Bermuda
March 29, 2007 by 8 Comments
…da is often forgotten about by most people I know because it’s so close to New York. It’s only a 2 hour flight but it doesn’t often come up as a place to shoot off to for a getaway. The more mainstream Caribbean places generally come up more often. However, Bermuda is awesome. The restaurants are world class, the culture is awesome with the Bermuda shorts and the English influence. But most of all, the beaches are tremendous. As you can see above…
Modern Sarajevo
April 2, 2007 by Leave a Comment
…e ever had in Europe and a pizza that could rival the best in my hometown, New York. I read about it in my Lets Go and they said it was worth the trouble of finding it. Usually, their food recommendations are not that good but I must say that they really nailed this on the head. The pizza was fabulous. The name of the place was Pekara Kovaci Kod Mahira Pizza and it is located away from the rest of the quarter up a steep hill and next to a graveyar…
Auschwitz and Birkenau
March 30, 2007 by 2 Comments
…llowed ground. It reminded me of the current situation near ground zero in New York City where I lost lots of people I knew and cared about. Currently, the World Trade Center site is a tourist attraction where people hock cheap photos of the towers and tourists ogle the hole and happily snap photos like they just achieved a goal. This made me sick. It brought the camps closer to home and soon enough I broke down. It was inevitable and I am surpris…
Guatemala in Short
April 5, 2007 by 1 Comment
…, for less than $30.00. Just to put that into perspective, where I live in New York City, a bottle at a club or bar will cost in excess of $400.00. We lived like kings in a little village, seemingly in the middle of nowhere. We spent time in Antigua – a more touristy colonial town, an hour from Guatemala City. I had been there before. I was eager to get back because I remembered the great restaurants and fun nightlife. Antigua is the number one pl…
Ko Phangan
April 11, 2007 by 2 Comments
…ith my two best friends, I jumped at it. I was back working as a broker in New York City and managed to get a few weeks off. So I jetted around a few different destinations in Southeast Asia. I then met my friends who were already there backpacking. After two fun filled days of partying until the early morning in Bangkok on the backpacker mainstays of Khao San Road and Patpong, we shot down to Ko Phangan, which is a small island off the east coast…
Mt. Kilimanjaro Journal
April 12, 2007 by 2 Comments
…unilaterally decided to take Tylenol PM to help us sleep because we both knew we would never make it unless we got some sleep. Day three was supposed to be the hardest day before the summit attempt so we wanted to be rested. At about 6:30pm we took Tylenol PM and were asleep about 10 minutes later. We didn’t wake up until about 6:30am and we felt great! Day 3 After breakfast and our now daily routine of Diamox and the magic pill, we packed up our…
The Belarus Ordeal
April 21, 2007 by Leave a Comment
…w, pacing up and down the aisle as time passed, I was watching men putting new train rails on our train. This was very odd so I decided to check the book and see if it mentioned anything about this. It said that the train tracks in the old Soviet Union are a different size than the rest of Europe and that it can take up to 3 hours to change the width of the rails at border stops. To me this was a slight relief because at least I knew what was happ…
Christ the Redeemer
May 2, 2007 by 4 Comments
Yesterday I did a profile on one of the new seven wonders finalists that I feel should certainly be voted in. Today I am going to write about a finalist which I feel just barely misses the final cut to seven. The statue of Christ the Redeemer, looming over Rio de Janeiro like a father to the entire city is an amzing thing to see because it’s viewable from throughout the city. Basically anywhere you are in Rio, you can look up and see Christ looki…
Costa Rica
May 10, 2007 by 13 Comments
…years ago. I went on a whim. I had about two weeks off before I started a new job. I fell in love with the country. It has everything for the adventure tourist such as myself, and it also specializes in what’s called eco-tourism – Costa Rica’s brand of tourism. Whether it is bird watching in the rain forest or zip-lining through the trees in search of toucans and sloths, you can do whatever you like in this tropical paradise. They have some of th…
