Visiting New York City during the spring and summer months is an amazing stop-over for those unfamiliar with Gotham’s best. That said, prices can get as high as the August humidity for certain activities, so visiting New York City on a budget requires some research for cost effective diversions, and a bit of pre-planning. Here are several affordable activities in…
Some people prefer the thrill of leaping out of a plane, gravity at its finest, the ground below, rushing at them like a Category 4 hurricane, the adrenaline palpable. My heart races just thinking about it. But for me, walking alongside a 200lb African Lion, or coming to face-to-face with a Wood Bison is not only a thrill, but a…
Whenever I’m in London, I make it a point to visit my place of worship. Nope, it’s not St. Paul’s Cathedral, or Westminster Abbey. They’re lovely, but as an Atheist (gasp!) my admiration for English churches doesn’t go much further than the exquisiteness of their towering buttresses, the craftsmanship of stained glass windows or the eerily beautiful acoustics found only…
I’ve been writing as long as I can remember. When I was in Kindergarten, it was little stories. Then it progressed into poems, next, letters to Green Peace, (Thanks to my mom for indulging a 7 year whale-loving activist), then it was personal essays, and so on. It eventually bloomed into a full blown obsession with journalism when I saw…
I’ve known since the third grade that I was destined to go to Africa someday. My fascination began the moment I opened my first National Geographic, a vintage issue dated February 1916, with the headline “How Old is Man?” emblazoned across the cover. Interest was replaced with obsession, and the mysteriousness of the continent was both intoxicating and alluring. Never…