Travels

This is what a Thursday afternoon in downtown Dar looks like…  

  While studying abroad in the Galapagos we took a short boat ride to Isla Tortuga to see the frigate birds mating. The island was speckled with dots of red from these birds. It was pretty awesome. We also snorkeled off the island. We saw a few reef shark, lobitos, and other cool critters. Here are…

The Southernmost point in the United States…    

A week after moving here I made my first friend, who I later learned is also a blogger… Destiny? I think yes… I don’t have to feel so weird about taking a million pictures or spending too much time on my computer. Anyway, she SMSed me on Sunday asking me if I wanted to go…

  I’m going to feed my Hawaii homesickness today and reminisce about Papakolea for this week’s Throwback Thursday. Papakolea, also known as Green Sand Beach, is located on the southernmost portion of the Big Island. It was formed by the eroding of a cinder cone. The green sand comes from olivine, a green gem found…

Eva’s First Thanksgiving pretty much lasted a week long. The first Thanksgiving dinner we had was early in the week at my mom’s house. I didn’t take many pictures that night, but here’s one of the few I took for my mom.   Early Friday morning, my little brother D.J. and I drove Eva up…

   Do you know what gives me a bigger adrenaline rush than dropping in on a wave a little too steep for me or even jumping out of an airplane? Caves. It’s not entirely strange that I can feel my heart pounding in my chest whenever I’m hiking through one. Caves are just plain creepy.…

DIA DE LOS MUERTOS – SAN ANTONIO TEXAS

  One of the few non-terrible things about living in 29 Palms, CA was that we lived off the same road as the entrance to Joshua Tree National Park. It was actually a pretty nice place to do some hiking and rock climbing if it wasn’t 120 degrees outside. When there, I felt like I…

  If I could live anywhere in Hawaii, it would definitely be Waipio Valley. When I was there I truly felt like I was isolated from the rest of the world. It was what I had always imagined Hawaii to be like. To get there you have to drive down a steep road (up to 45 degrees)…