Sometimes we put off some of the most obvious things on our bucket list for an unusually long time. We cannot explain it beyond the excuse that we just haven’t come around to doing them. Over 8 years ago, in a small Mexican restaurant that has since shut down, Argentine tango found me. I say it found me because I was just looking to learn a few dance steps for my upcoming wedding, not pursuing a life-long passion, a dance with which I have had a sweet relationship, and just as relationships go, it has evolved through many ups and downs, highs and lows for nearly a decade. Even so, one thing always remained certain: Someday, we were going to see and experience Buenos Aires, the city that gave us the dance and the music we love. [Read more…] about Buenos Aires: 17 ways to delight in Argentina’s capital
On the Road
10 Smart Tips for the Savvy World Traveler in You
Being a savvy traveler is an exceptionally smart skill to have, easy to develop and hard to do without once you firmly establish the habit. When I look back at our initial travels, I shudder at the immature ways I went about them. I can almost pinpoint the day that my husband read an article on becoming a minimalist traveler, and overnight, forbid me from checking in luggage, regardless of our destination! (You bet I put up a fight!) Around the same time, he decided that if we were going to be traveling the world, it is imperative for both our sanity and our budget that we become expert travelers.
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Indulging in the Louvre: Excerpts from the Paris Journals
Paris means something different to everyone. Everyone who has walked the streets of this immutable city knows and loves a Paris all their own. For that reason alone, it is impossible to create a universal guide for enjoying Paris. And an even more daunting task would be to claim to have such a guide for the most magnificent museum in the world, the Louvre. Perhaps the only thing we may agree on is this: That Paris is elusive and eternal, and the Louvre is the heart of this jeweled city, a mystery as deep as the brilliance of a diamond, and no less beautiful than the gemstone itself. The Louvre which cannot be contained, consumed, or covered in two dozen visits or more. The Louvre which I long for in the months after leaving Paris, and anticipate with baited breath in those leading up to it. The Louvre mementos through my eyes and heart which I impart to you here. Repeat it, build on it, shake it up, erase it and create your own experience. Do what you will so long as it gets you to the Louvre. [Read more…] about Indulging in the Louvre: Excerpts from the Paris Journals
Memories of a Thanksgiving in Hong Kong
This Thanksgiving was with family and friends. Last Thanksgiving, Hawaii. But I will never forget that in 2007, after a trying year with career and other challenges, we decided in a moment’s notice to pack up and go to Hong Kong for Thanksgiving. Traveling there from East Coast of United States is not exactly a short plane hop, and disappointing not one but two families took heaps of courage. But as my husband said, in a quote that has become a motto when we plan serious travel in our lives, “If not us, who? If not now, when?“ And that is how we approach our life’s travels, because we have but one lifetime to live and one fantastic globe to discover in the process. It is best to ditch the reasons that keep you at home, to pack light and travel far and make memories that in your old age will warm your heart, and bring you a quiet satisfaction knowing that while you could, you traveled. You explored. You went away from home to see the world. [Read more…] about Memories of a Thanksgiving in Hong Kong
8 Reasons to Experience the World’s Best Kept Secret: Tokyo’s Depachikas
If you desire it, they will have it, in the world’s best kept and most delicious secret: the Depachika, the food havens in the heart of underground malls of Tokyo.
A depachika is a contraction of depato (department store) and chika (underground mall), a place of endless wonder and marvel producing a feast for the eyes, the mind and the belly. [Read more…] about 8 Reasons to Experience the World’s Best Kept Secret: Tokyo’s Depachikas
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