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My One Year Photo-of-the-Day Blog

On July 1st I released a new “photo-of-the-day” blog on which I will be posting one picture per day for the upcoming year. Each month will have a different theme. The month of When I received the news that Jet Blue would not be offering their All You Can Jet Pass this year, I decided [...]

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Travel as a Social Experiment in Puerto Rico

One of the most brilliant aspects of jetBlue’s All You Can Jet Pass is their effort to connect travelers through social media as they use the pass. Announcing on a Facebook group that I would be visiting San Juan, Puerto Rico the following week, I received several responses from other travelers. I had no idea [...]

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Santo Domingo: Where Old and New Meet

Here I am seated on the walls of the old city of Santo Domingo and I am in awe. I feel this way for a number of reasons but first, because this is where life in North America started for Europeans. Although the Dominican Republic was not the first place Christopher Columbus landed, he did [...]

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Spontaneity and the Merchant of Venice

One of the things I love about travel is the increased openness I feel to see and respond to daily opportunities. Travel is an invitation to spontaneity. It is a chance to live how we would like to live if we didn’t feel too busy to do so. In this way it also reminds us [...]

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