New Orleans

A Local’s Guide to a “Whole Differnent World” in New Orleans

NOLA -What the locals call New Orleans. Short for the abbreviated, New Orleans. –Louisiana. New Orleans- pronounced Or-lenz. There is no lean in Orleans. Sometimes called Nawlins. 🙂 This has been a blog post several years in the making. Louisiana will always have a special place in my heart. It’s where I started out on my […]

Colombia

Kyoto

The Church on Spilled Blood, Saint Petersburg

This was the day that I decided that I never really wanted to go back home. The elk were in rut in the cute little town of Estes Park. The males bugled and butted heads like a show off of a wildlife documentary. Facinating and amazing. Rocky Mountain National Park is remote; it’s hard to get to it. A snowstorm actually blocked our path through the mountains in the park, but I’m glad we stumbled upon ELK FEST- a (month long?) celebration where the Elk actually-literally- come into town to breed. The town is built on their migratory grounds.