Table for One: What I ate in Berlin.
I'm not one of those backpackers who is content to make pasta in the hostel kitchen. I like to eat. I like to go out to eat. I like to try new foods and cuisines. It's a hard thing to do, when you're in a...
July 11, 2011
All by myself: traveling to Berlin alone.
I'm not going to lie. So far this trip has been hard. Traveling to Berlin alone has been hard. It's been getting better, I'm no longer getting as lost, I'm getting more familiar with what paths I need to take. But I'm leaving for Warsaw...
July 10, 2011
All in all it’s just another brick in the wall.
When I booked a ticket to Berlin about the only thing I knew that was there was the Berlin Wall. And I also knew that that was torn down some time ago. So I guess I didn't really know anything here....
Human urine and the shaving of a cactus.
I'm usually someone who can be in and out of a museum in 20 minutes. I've honestly never been an inquisitive person. I don't ask a lot of questions. I take things as they are. I don't really need to read long paragraphs about a...
July 8, 2011
My first day.
By the time I got off my plane, took a shuttle from the airplane to the terminal, made my way through a ridiculous line to get my passport stamped (and all he did was stamp it, it's easier to get into Europe than into Canada),...
July 7, 2011
Brooklyn.
I am not on vacation. It's something that is both easy to grasp and hard to understand. If I were on vacation I would need to fill all of my precious time with something new and exciting. Going to New York would mean Central Park...
July 6, 2011
Joey Chestnut doesn’t hate me!
Going to Coney Island on the Fourth of July is a miserable experience. Inevitably I am standing next to a drunk guy who dances to everything and bumps into me and steps on my toes every other second. Inevitably I am next to a group...
July 5, 2011
Day one.
When I arrived in New York on Sunday, after an hour-delayed-due-to-thunder-in-New-York flight, I had to make my first important decision: do I take a cab like I normally would do or pay much less but take an hour longer with a bus and two trains....
