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Serendipitous Senderos
http://www.serendipitoussenderos.blogspot.com
A nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
- Added on: Nov 2nd, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: rachelward08
- Listed in: Travel Womens
- Tags: travel spain italy humor chile west virginia
Recent Posts
Barcelona: Ya me despide de ti
I flip to the map of Barcelona in my worn Time Out guidebook. I run my finger down the wide streets I walked so many times – Passeig de Gracia, Portal del Angel, Avenida Diagonal. I think about all the people I passed on those streets, from Korean ...
Destination: Christmas in Barcelona
Last December I bicycled down elegant shopping avenues draped in white lights and wandered through Christmas markets selling hand carved nativities and jamon serrano in cosmopolitan Barcelona. Yuletide festivities in the Catalan metropolis ...
My Hometown in 500 Words
I run off the road toward the brush when a pick-up truck whizzes past me at a curve. A thorny weed latches around my neck. I’ve forgotten how foggy and cool the West Virginia mornings are in late August. This was not a good plan, I think about my i...
Alone for the holidays
It was December 23 of last year at about 10 p.m. I sat in an outside seat of a vaporetti boat on the Grand Canal, coughing from the engine fumes and wearing my hood in the chilly rain. I was alone, listening to an ill-timed Weepies ballad on my iPod ...
A Southern Education
When my parents drove away and left me in my corner dorm room on the third floor of Buist Rivers Residence Hall, alone in a city 500 miles from home where I knew no one, I braced myself for a shocking transition. At 18, I was fully aware that I’d g...
Visit Charleston: The cool side of charming
When you think of Charleston, South Carolina, you might conjure up images of a quaint and cultured coastal city rife with old money, Civil War history, and carriage tours. Charleston is a lovely city – one of the loveliest – but it’s also a col...
