I been asked over and over again what it was like for me to live in the forest, and it occured to me how unbelievable it might be to some people that, along with three other people, I lived without electricity (well, we had a generator that we were able to use about once a . . . → Read More: Home Sweet Home. I mean…Tent Sweet Tent.
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Want to know what it’s like to start off a work day with a 1.5 hour hike on a rainforest trail involving several ravines and a small mountain? Until I visited Bioko, I always thought that the cliche “dripping with sweat” statements were simply literary exaggerations. Well, I’m here to let you know that it . . . → Read More: All in a day’s work; yep, this is definitely not sexy. Step number 1: Set up a signal fire. Step 2: Sleep on the beach until the boat gets here. Step 3: Frantically flag down the boat with any available materials…ie: neon yellow rain jacket. Step 4: Desperately try to get an overloaded boat out over the breaking waves and safely into the . . . → Read More: How to leave a rocky, wave-filled, bay on the southern beaches of Bioko Island. Nights were a really weird time in the forest; we didn’t have electricity so we would do everything by firelight or by headlamp light beam. It’s strange to describe the feeling of being confined to such a small area because of a lack of power, although I came to prefer having a headlamp on me…even . . . → Read More: Night time, rainforest style. I LOVE German butcher shops. I don’t care what anyone says – they are absolutely fantastic. While in Germany with my boyfriend, I took him to a butcher shop. The goal: to buy meat for a picnic. Inside the family-run shop, thick silver hooks speared meat hanging in glass-door refrigerators. A little chilled, I glanced . . . → Read More: Blood sausages and raw meat. Barbaric! 
I think the turtle got at a nice, solid 30 min. of napping in (Hawaii, USA). 
Some unintentional humor on a train from Frankfurt, Germany to Prague, Czech Republic 
OK, so the title pretty much describes what I think the average person believes to be the German stereotype (plus some lederhosen!). Maybe all of that beer and the fact that eating a bratwurst mimics certain sexual behaviors, could explain why sex is now a German stereotype. Before we delve farther into this (very) interesting . . . → Read More: Sex, Beer, and Bratwurst! The year 2005 was good for many reasons – I graduated high school, I went on an awesome trip to Europe, and I started university. One of the not-so-great memories concerned bananas. More specifically, it concerned a Gwen Stefani song where the main line is: “this S**t is Bananas! B-A-N-A-N-A-S!” Why would a song like . . . → Read More: How Gwen Stefani singlehandedly changed my European experience. Driving on the autobahn is a little scary, let’s be honest. I would know because I drove on it! In the summer of 2006 a few friends and I decided to do a two-week tour of Germany. After doing the math, it was cheaper for us to rent a car (even with gas costs) than . . . → Read More: How to drive on the autobahn in Germany…and survive! Partner Sites |
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