My family and I were visiting the Pompeii Ruins in Italy. We had walked through cobblestone streets, ran among the ruins, lingered in the old gardens, and even played fetch with a few dogs we came across along the way. After an exhausting morning of discovering the history of this unique area, I was ready for a much needed nap.
My final day in Nigeria was a very good one. The teachers continued the workshop from Wednesday, this time writing comic book manuscripts and creating their actual comic books. It was clear that they were truly understanding the "language" of comics: the balance of art and writing that makes comics what they are.
Americans have been hooked on pizza and pasta since Italian immigrants began dishing it out decades ago. That’s where many of us got our perception of Italian food. Now, with the popularity of travel abroad, that perception is changing.
For me, the idea of taking the train has a certain romance to it. My mind immediately fills with images of high class railways in foreign lands and the excitement of watching the world pass as I stare out the window.
James Bond, Jason Bourne, and Ethan Hunt are some of my favorite on-screen undercover agents. They make saving the world look easy! They are always undetectable and unnoticeable. But I take notice! Watching them break necks, decipher codes, perform incredible stunts, and outrun constant peril makes me think that I have what it takes to do what they do so well.
I love writing. In 2010, my dad told me about a website called Storybird. It is a website where people from all around the world connect to write. I made friends with a lot of the users, but one that really stuck out to me was Deepfried_freak. She was different from the rest.
The trip from our condo in Lexington, Michigan, to the Wisconsin Dells was a short 551 miles. Every one of those miles spared me the indignities of flying and renewed my love of road trips.
Over the past six years, my mom has traveled across America in an RV and visited all 50 states. She has been to major cities all over the world, including London, New York, Dublin, Los Angeles, Miami, and Paris.
Apparently gardens make really good zoos, though that’s no excuse to let the neighbor’s pets run through your flowerbeds. In the case of the Wilhelma Zoological Botanical Garden in Stuttgart, Germany (we just call it Wilhelma), it’s very true!
I’m always looking for unique ways to explore destinations I love. I remember reading a book in college (for fun, not for class), on cruising down the Seine on a houseboat. Now the drawback, as I remember, was dealing with the boat and all the details of living on it (cooking, showers, etc.).