Making Travel Safer: A Review of the React Mobile App
We like to think that we are safe and savvy travelers. It helps that we are almost always together, watching out for each other. If one of us gets distracted or a little too carefree, the other one is there to notice when something doesn’t feel right. There’s power in...
La Fortuna Waterfall: A Journey of Three Horses
“Okay Casey. You’ve got this. Show her who is in charge. Don’t let her eat the grass. You can do it. Pull a little more to the right. Hold her there.” These were the encouraging words of Alberto Junior. By his calm and patient tone, you would never have known I was...
Sunday Snapshot | Purple Haired Street Vendor | Seoul, South Korea
An old friend, a newer friend and I were walking through the buzzing nighttime streets of Seoul, South Korea on our way to a coffee shop. We were three among what could easily have been hundreds of people going here or there, filling the streets with no regards...
Costa Rica Wildlife | Intimate Encounters Around Arenal Volcano
Costa Rica is renowned for its diverse wildlife. With over 500,000 species, it’s no wonder why nature lovers flock from around the world in an attempt to view just a handful of them. We typically prefer adrenaline pumping adventures to relaxed nature strolls, but...
San Ramon, Costa Rica | A True Pura Vida Town
Pura Vida—It’s a typical Costa Rican phrase. Directly it translates into “pure life”, but there’s so much more to the expression than that. A more accurate rendition might be ‘to live life to the fullest’, or—like Urban Dictionary so eloquently puts it— hakuna matata....
Sunday Snapshot | The World’s Best Sunrise | Poon Hill, Nepal
Poon Hill, Nepal is famous for being one best places in the world to view the sunrise. I got lucky on this day, as the preceding month in Nepal had been uncharacteristically cloudy. My hopes of seeing much of anything from this spot were fading fast, but we...