America
How Do You Define ‘Home’ When You Live Out of a Suitcase?
Finish this sentence: Home is… For me that answer isn’t an easy one. I was born and raised in Hawaii, finished high school and college in New York and have lived in 10 different cities in five different countries since then. I currently live in Las Vegas. While a part of each of those places … Continue reading
New Travel-Related Words Added to the
Dictionary in 2011
How’s your travel vocabulary? Have you been keeping up? Here’s a list of travel-related words that have been officially recognized by the Oxford English and Merriam-Webster dictionaries. Mankini Official Dictionary Definition: a brief one-piece bathing garment for men, with a T-back. How it Relates to Travel: Popularized by the movie Borat, this is one … Continue reading
Future Travel Plans: Montana or Arizona?
I found a ticket from Las Vegas to Phoenix, Arizona for just 26 dollars (round-trip!) and another plane ticket from Las Vegas to Bozeman (which I know sounds like the capital of a small eastern African country but it’s actually a city in Montana) for 80 dollars (round-trip). What I need from you, dear readers, … Continue reading
Imagine if You Could Start Your Own Country…What Would You Do?
There are people in the world that for whatever reason, have started their own countries. Some of these countries are located on abandoned platforms in the ocean, others on man-made sandbanks and at least one is located right here in the US, (on 1.3 acres of land outside of Reno, Nevada). Most of these ‘micro-nations’ … Continue reading
Halloween in Sin City
My friend recently joked that unlike guys, girls have it easy when it comes to choosing a Halloween costume. “Girls just wear their underwear and bunny ears,” he complained. ”Or their underwear and angel wings or their underwear and devil horns.” That was certainly evident last weekend when I attended what is widely considered the … Continue reading
