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Florida Rainstorm

I was asleep in bed, embraced by a thick duvet and too many pillows when I heard it---the familiar sound of the storm siren. Distant but powerful. It's strange, but I find this sound comforting. I like the dissonant drone, like a chord that never rounds

City Guide: Lisbon, Portugal

  Lisbon is easily my favorite European city I've visited to date (don't tell the other European cities, I want them to like me). I had such an amazing wander around this sunny, colorful, historic place. Maybe it had something to do with the tiles It had EVERYTHING to

Honolulu Hospitality

"May-lay Keh-lee-kee-mah-kah" My aunt said pronouncing the island sounds of the Hawaiian holiday greeting---"Mele Kalikimaka." I can still hear her, bouncing from vowel to vowel, sounding out the names of Hawaiian streets---Gracefully, carefully. respectfully. This was many years ago. I was only nine years old. It was my biggest

Wend City Guide: Port Chalmers

Just a small fishing village, Port Chalmers is only a short 25 minute drive from its more popular neighbor, Dunedin. Of course, Dunedin is well worth a visit (if not solely to stock up on bars and bars of chocolate at the Cadbury Factory alone). But if you're

An Afternoon in Lombok

I am sitting in a blue restaurant overlooking Senggigi Beach on the Indonesian island of Lombok. The water is bright teal as it hits the sand, and a darker blue farther out in the ocean where fishermen bob around waiting for life at the end of their lines. Sitting