Day 3 in Dominica: Valley of Desolation and Boiling Lake

20. January 2011 Dominica, Videos 0
I woke up extra early today to have coffee and fresh fruits at the restaurant before an ungodly start of 7:30am to our Valley of Desolation and Boiling Lake hike. Because most of the guests signed up to hike, yoga was cancelled. I had asked Joanne in the kitchen last night to boil two eggs ...

Day 2 in Dominica: Victoria Falls

10. January 2011 Dominica 3
I fell in-love in Dominica. With my mosquito net. I woke up my second morning with my room bathed in morning sunlight and shadows on my bed created by my mosquito net. I quickly noted to myself to find a way to install one back in my New York City apartment. After a morning shower ...

Day 1 in Dominica: Jungle Bay Spa and Resort

04. January 2011 Dominica 7
It’s okay, Keith the driver said. The rain will stop after we pass the forest. And it did. One thing I learned during my stay in Dominica was that the weather was never what it seemed. I had a view of the Atlantic Ocean from my cottage and more than a few times I watched ...

Day 1 in Portugal: Overnight in Sintra: Casa Miradouro

19. October 2010 Portugal 0
Good thing Daddy knows how to drive stick!, the Dr. beamed proudly as we took another sharp turn on Sintra’s curvy roads. It took us at least an hour to find Casa Miradouro from Lisbon. We drove through the narrow stone streets of Sintra with its numerous forts, monasteries and castles and we kept getting ...

Foraging with Wildman Steve

28. September 2010 Kitchen Gadget Reviews, New York 1
After reading about Bon Appétit, a sustainable-minded food catering company based in–of course–California, and its efforts to get even more local by switching the roles of some of their managers and chefs to “foragers”, I immediately thought, Well, they should call Wildman Steve. I don’t remember how I first heard about Wildman Steve, but I’ve ...