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I am so behind on everyone’s blogs (not to mention my own) but the intensity of the last few weeks has not stopped.  And now it’s gettin’ round to midnight but my alarm is set for 4:00 AM.  Why this ungodly hour you ask?  Well, since I figured this was my last chance to fly [...]

Between the fact that it was my fourth time in Amsterdam, the weather was still cold and rainy, and Ron Russo not owning a camera nor caring much about documenting every moment of our trip, I took very few photos in the city itself.  But I just had to capture this cool Van Gogh mural [...]

My procrastination reaches all new heights as I finally put up photos from Paris, almost TWO months ago.  (With the Netherlands hopefully soon to follow.)  I figured everyone has seen postcard-perfect pictures of iconic Paris so I will try to go a different route and find the quirky.  Do you really want to see another [...]

People, I am alive.  It was a full two weeks and I’ve never had an illness drag on for so long but finally it’s over.  In the meantime I’ve done about as little as a human being could possibly do and the last thing on my mind was going through the photos I took in [...]

Today is pretty momentous because Ron Russo is using his first passport for the first time.  As much as I would love to steal him away to Laos or the Galapagos, I figure I need to ease him into it.  So our ten-day trip will include France (probably just Paris) and the Netherlands (definitely Amsterdam, [...]

…and wildlife because Costa Rica had plenty.  And perhaps I’m merely indulging myself since my trip was five weeks ago, but what the hell, how about some photos.
Ultra and I took a day-trip up to the Cano Negro area near the Nicaraguan border.  On the way there we stopped by a restuarant whose owner has [...]

So I’ve got a few minutes to do a quick recap of my four days in Costa Rica so far:

San Jose is nothing special and we got out as fast as we could, though not before we spotted a lady of the night in red ruffled undies
when I went to open the door to our [...]

I honestly didn’t realize that the whole reality show thing was going to be such a curiosity.  And I promise that I’ll write a full post with all the details, but not today.  Because today I am going to Costa Rica.  My flight leaves in a few hours and I won’t be back in NYC [...]

A little while back GeekHiker asked me about how I deal with the language barriers when travelling.  Recently, when I mentioned that I backpacked through Europe after college, he also made a comment that he would’ve travelled after college too if he had the money.  So I figured I can tackle these two topics together.  (And if the post [...]

Thanks to Dene’s last comment, I decided to finally properly go through my London photos and do a little recap.  Since this was my 4th time in London (and the third since 2006), I thought I’d pretty much seen it all, but instead I discovered a London I never knew.  Rather than focusing on the [...]