Note: Written 23 July 2011 The original 27 Club was Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison, who died within 2 years of each other in 1969-1971. Kurt Cobain is usually added to this list next who committed suicide in 1994 at the age of 27. Then there’s a score of other famous [...]

There is a scene in the fabulous collection of shorts, Paris Je T’Aime, with a very stereotypical overweight American tourist clad in fanny pack, sneakers and her Lonely Planet Paris guide. As amazing as all of the shorts in this collection are, this one haunts me the most. Her terrible French, her lonely but highly [...]

When traveling, you learn you must be fluid and cope with the unexpected. An unexpected I could not have anticipated needing to cope with are the two explosions that just went off from a massive car bomb severely damaging a government building in Oslo, Norway, where I am traveling to in a week. There are [...]

Note: Written 14 July 2011 I am the happiest girl ever right now. I just purchased a bottle of Jack Daniel’s at Duty Free. Now I just need to find some Schwepps ginger ale to ensure continued delight. Belgrade’s airport, Nikola Tesla Airport, has two levels of security. Once as you are used to seeing [...]

As soon as Erik got through security, I immediately regretted not staying in the amazingly comfortable hotel bed and coming to the airport on my own, closer to my own flight time. My 12:40pm flight isn’t leaving for another three hours and I didn’t get my postcards mailed, rushed through breakfast and skipped my much-needed [...]

After traveling from Novi Sad to Belgrade yesterday, I was lazy the rest of the day to recoup from the festival and rest my ankle. Now awake to grab breakfast at the hotel before we head out to check out the Nikola Tesla Museum and the rest of Belgrade! I discovered this awesome little piece [...]

Note: Written 6 July 2011 By the time I will have posted this, I will be in Serbia. After a mad dash on a rolled ankle, a little line cutting and a broken combination of English and French, I boarded a flight to Belgrade this morning. My final destination today is Novi Sad, about an [...]

I keep having nightmares. Once in Barcelona and every night since I’ve been in London. They are always different and always drawing from aspects of real life conversations, people and events in my life. Is this what happens when you finally free your mind of the stress? Is this some sort of mental cleansing that [...]