This past October we took our first trip to Fiji. Our friends and I have always wanted to travel to this exotic destination. In the surfers world it's known for heavy, excellent surf, and crystal clear water. Since we were traveling with Cruz and …
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Tahiti September 2013: The Surf
The main purpose of our Tahiti trip was to SURF. We always heard that the surf in Tahiti was heavy and let me tell you it was! Tahiti is like Hawaii, with warmer water and swell year round, but since Tahiti isn't as developed as Hawaii overall the …
Tahiti September 2013: The Food
Eating is usually my #1 priority in daily life, and especially on vacation! Tahiti is a French territory and has dominant French influence in the language, culture, and of course food. Steve and I ate our way through Tahiti and were very surprised …
Tahiti September 2013: Whereabouts
Most people don't realize that Tahiti is only a 5 hour plane ride away from Oahu. Hawaiian Airlines now flies once a week directly to Pape'ete, Tahiti, and there is no time zone change. Steve and I decided to take advantage of the convenience of …
Photos from Thailand Trip!
In January 2013, I took a one week trip to Thailand with my family. My father got married in northern Thailand in a small city called Sakon Nakhon. We got to see a little bit of the town, try Vietnamese cuisine, get Thai massages, and participate in …
Grazie Italia
This is a video is of Piazza della Signoria in Florence at night. Turn up the audio to here to tranquil music that a local musician was playing free for the square visitors. I hope I didn't bore my readers with my 500 posts on Italia. Spending …
Pasta Making Class at Vecchia Scuola Bolognese
On September 5, 2012, one of the last days of our trip, happened to be one of my favorite days of the entire trip, A PASTA MAKING CLASS! All I really wanted to do in Italy was eat pasta, drink wine, and relax. But the second thing I wanted to do in …
Touring the Ducati Motorcycle Factory & Museum
One of Steve's must dos in Italy was touring the Ducati motorcycle factory in Bologna. He went online ahead of time and booked us a tour on September 4, 2012. I, on the otherhand, am not a huge fan of motorcycles, but decided to be a good sport and …
Bologna, Italia
On Monday September 3, 2012 we packed up and left Sant'Engle and headed to Bologna. We were planning to end our trip in Milan (since that is where we were flying home from), but Steve wanted to make a quick stop in Bologna to take a tour of the …
Vie Cave
The areas of Sorano, Pitigliano, and Sovana are known for their vie cave, pronounced vee-ah cavay, meaning sunken roads. The vie cave are narrow paths that the Etruscans (pre-Roman civilization in ancient Italy, similar to the Egyptians) cut …