I came upon this blog while I was doing research into the Africa trip. Does this sound amazing or what? http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Rwanda/blog-3441.html
I am taking a little study break from my Money Markets and the Fed exam studying and decided to quickly express my feelings on how pumped I am for Spring Break. Myself and 12 friends are headed to Aspen for a week of skiing (think snow) and then 15 of us are headed to Acapulco where…
It was a last minute decision but I decided to take a week long vacation next week and go to Costa Rica. I leave on Saturday and am going to spend 8 days of rest and relaxation with a lot of surfing, some golf, and other things that you do on vacation in Costa… Playa…
A Colombian friend of mine sent me this compilation of various tourism commercials for Colombia. Many of the places that we are visiting (Bogota, Cartagena, Tayrona, Barranquilla) are shown. I particularly love the tagline: Colombia – el riesgo es que te quieres quedar Hoping that I can either buy a shirt with the phrase or…
I just read an article on MSNBC about a section of the Brazilian Amazon which had been saved from deforestation and plantation growth with a $1MM grant from Conservation International. The grant protects an area called the Guayana Shield, the 57,915-square-mile area which contains more than 25 percent of the world’s remaining humid tropical forests and…
Given our love of music and food, Beth Ann and I had been talking about visiting Austin ever since we met, and unfortunately I had never made it down for SXSW. So, when we saw that the Memorial Day weekend weather was going to be classic Seattle spring (read: rainy), we booked a last minute…