Is the Chase Sapphire Reserve Credit Card Worth the new Fee?
Something that I am asked frequently is what travel credit card I use. I always rave about the Chase Sapphire Reserve (CSR). I’ve now paid for two years of CSR […]
Tag Archives: Travel
2019- Year End Review
I know I’m supposed to post this at the end of December… and then I would have written one post in 2019! Whoops! Well… writing has been a challenge as […]
Update and A Day Trip to Astoria
Sooo, blogging with an infant is really challenging! haha! Sorry for the long absences. I’m hoping that when I start working at the end of the month the set […]
Santiago Highlights
I mostly came to Chile because of their great wine and because I love street art. I really wanted to see Easter Island and hike in the Chilean Patagonia, but […]
Rio in One Day
My trip to Rio was an unusual one for me. Normally I travel during a school holiday while masses of other people do the same throughout Latin America. This time, […]
Found Poetry: Venezuelan Protests
This month is national poetry month. Today my class was working on found poems. Only half of my class was able to make it because there are protests going on […]
I’m in Rio!
Yesterday I arrived in Rio for my AASSA teaching conference! My coworker and I left Venezuela on Monday afternoon, spent a couple of hours at the Panama airport, and then […]
Lessons Learned While Driving in Venezuela
Get really bright headlights installed (you might need to bring them from home if you want them, though) because street lights frequently don’t work and everyone has very tinted windows […]
Waiting for Gas in Venezuela
It has only happened a handful of times during the five years I’ve been living in Venezuela, but right now in Valencia, we are in the middle of a […]
Flashback Friday: One Summer in Japan
I have a soft spot for Japan. Sushi, amazing architecture, kind people, ramen, clean, orderly, easy to travel, and they even had a whole street of places to go salsa […]
