Bonaire’s an interesting place in terms of the dive scene. Whereas in other countries, they stress that you always have a buddy and it’s rare that you’re allowed to go off on your own without a dive group—not to mention, you’re often limited to three dives a day—the opposite is precisely the mantra on this [...]
Being a Tourist in Your (Former) Town
September 28, 2010 By 30 Comments
SVV and I returned from a bit of an impromptu trip to New York at midnight last night. It’s weird because while I spent a couple years in the Big Apple, I feel like it’s slipping away from me. Sure, I navigate the city on auto-pilot, knowing exactly how to get from point A to [...]
Photo Friday: Bruny Island, Tasmania
September 24, 2010 By 13 Comments
Our first day in Hobart, we took a long, windy car ride down to the Tasman Peninsula to board a boat headed out to Bruny Island. Bear in mind, July in Tasmania is the height of winter and even with the full-on windsuit we all donned, it was still bitterly cold. In fact, I would [...]
Tasmania on the Half Shell
September 22, 2010 By 28 Comments
I should start by being honest: I don’t eat shellfish (aside from scallops). In fact, I didn’t eat seafood at all until I moved to San Francisco and discovered what seafood should really taste like. I’m adventurous about a lot of things, but food apparently, is not one of them. And yet, when offered a [...]
Trampin’ Around
September 20, 2010 By 37 Comments
The single greatest thing about living in San Francisco is there is literally anything under the sun you could ask for by way of activities within the city’s 49-square-mile confines—from an aerial tour via passenger blimp to fulfilling a childhood dream of bouncing around in a room full of trampolines. And you know by now how much [...]
Photo Friday: Long Beach, California
September 17, 2010 By 7 Comments
Right before the wedding, I headed down to LA and the OC just shy of a week to do a few stories for the California board of tourism’s annual Visit California guide. SVV joined me for the weekend, and we ventured on over to Long Beach bright and early Sunday morning. Of course, SVV was [...]
How to Gorge Yourself on Chocolate for $3.33
September 16, 2010 By 17 Comments
What do you get when you mix a perfectly sunny California day, one Moose, 30 tickets for chocolate samples and a monkey with a camera? Well, other than one wicked bellyache, you have the recipe for my Sunday afternoon. I’m a huge fan of Groupon—enough so to put a free banner on the side of [...]
City Dog, Vol. I
September 12, 2010 By 28 Comments
Hey guys! Ella here. Mom said since I’m pretty much the cutest pup on the planet (modest, too), y’all might want to know how I’m faring here in my transition from country girl to city dog. So I’m here to tell ya. San Francisco’s pretty sweet. Other than the loud noises and sirens, but I’m [...]
Photo Friday: Hobart, Tasmania
September 10, 2010 By 13 Comments
Going into it, I had such misconceptions about Hobart. I think Tasmania, I think “Final Frontier,” I think rustic and sporadically barren and not at all the cosmopolitan city I found in Hobart, the island state’s capital. I was hardly anticipating such a thriving downtown and for there to be so many people residing there [...]
The Jewel of Tasmania
September 8, 2010 By 24 Comments
This is the occasional part of my job that I’m kind of embarrassed to talk about. You see, the whole purpose for the jaunt to Tasmania—and as quickly as we were in and out, it was just that: a jaunt—was for the opening of this uber-swank resort. A place that in my wildest dreams, I [...]
