United States What We Did This Week If you're not a big fan of 'reading' then this is going to be your favourite post yet. The picture to word ratio is going to be out of this WORLD! So let's start: Our apartment is close to St. John the divine, a
United States So Much to Do, So Little Time... They're not kidding when they call New York the city that never sleeps. There is something going on ALL THE TIME! To avoid going crazy trying to do it all or moping about opportunities missed, we just keep telling ourselves that you can't dance at two
United States Walk the Line We haven't done too many touristy things yet (tomorrow, really, for sure!) but we did make it down to the Highline the other day just in time for sunset. The highline is a park built on an old elevated train line originally used to get freight trains off
United States The City That Never Sleeps "A few months in NYC" has been on our travel list for so long that it feels almost surreal that we're really here now. Thanks to Yiko we now call a 5th floor walk-up in Morningside Heights our home, at least until December. It's
United States Be Sure to Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair San Francisco was so much fun that we only get down to writing about it now, after we've left the city. The weather was perfect and we felt guilty for any moment spent inside so we ended up walking all over the city, saw parks and places that
United States Smokey Bear Country If I try to put our hike in Yosemite into words it's going to end up sounding like a sappy, revelatory religious experience, full of 'amazing', 'awe-inspiring', 'incredible' and the occasional 'breath-taking'. And still, it wouldn't do it
United States In the Company of Giants Do you remember the Ents from The Lord of the Rings books/movies? I don't think Tolkien ever travelled to California but he might have still taken the Sequoia sempervirens as inspiration. Not that these redwoods need to move or talk to become more impressive. Their size alone
United States Sky to Sea Highway Did you know that Mt. Saint Helen lost more than a 1000 feet of height when it blew its top off in 1980? That's quite a lot of mountain to be coughed up into the air. That's also why it looks slightly less impressive today. Unfortunately
United States Sleeping in Seattle We arrived in the United States just in time for its 235 birthday celebration. We even celebrated in the state named after the first president. Although we did have a thirst for beer these things are hard to find at this kind of celebration, so Nora had a hot dog
United States Diving with Nemo After we passed our PADI Open water certificate in the murky waters of Sarasota, we decided that our first real dive should be in the most unreal environment there is - the Epcot DiveQuest experience, i.e. diving in the Disney World aquarium. Our instructor had talked about it with
United States Paws in the water Two more names haven been added to the PADI list of "Open Water Certified Divers" this weekend - we passed our test! We took the whole course online over the past few weeks and then did three days of confined and open water dives here in Sarasota to
United States Culinary, mostly Miami is about food for us because we're staying with Conor's cousin Fernando who is an excellent cook and loves to eat. In the last few days we've had fresh shrimp cooked in a tomato onion broth, soft-shell crab (thanks to Luis and Lacey
