'From the time the Joshua tree was a tiny sapling, it had been so beaten down by the whipping wind that, rather than trying to grow skyward, it had grown in the direction that the wind pushed it. It existed now in a permanent state of windblowness, leaning over so far that it seemed ready … Continue reading Winter Adventures: Joshua Tree National Park
'Wherever you go and whatever you do, may the luck of the Irish be there with you.'-Irish Proverb Since I decided to go to Northern Ireland on this trip, Ireland was a no brainer for the last stop of my two week winter holiday! I visited when I was in middle school but hadn't been … Continue reading Holiday Adventures: Dublin
'London opens to you like a novel itself… It is divided into chapters, the chapters into scenes, the scenes into sentences; it opens to you like a series of rooms, doors and passages. Mayfair to Piccadilly to Soho to the Strand.'-Anna Quindlen. Outside of where I grew up, the place that feels most like home … Continue reading Holiday Adventures: London