Your Nautical and Coffee Obsessed Best Friend: From Travel to Fashion and Everything in between
"True love stories never have endings." ~ Richard Bach Symbolism Locks are symbolic for many reasons. They are solid, all but impermeable without a key. You have to make a concerted effort to break a lock, and even then it isn't easy unless you have something like bolt cutters. And who walks around with those? [...]
"Architecture is to be regarded by us with the most serious thought. We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her." John Ruskin Monday Monday dawned dreary, raining in the morning. We took our time getting ready and then went to a diner for breakfast which is maybe ten [...]
It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage. George William Curtis Sunday Sunday morning dawned with plans of an early morning sail. Alas it was sold out, so we decided to brave the colder temps and do the later one at sunset which worked out much better. [...]
"A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving." ~ Lao Tzu Day two was equally magical if not perhaps channeling our slight inner insanity, as we chose to wake up before the sun, hopping on a bus just outside my aunt's apartment to take us to the Golden Gate Bridge. [...]
"I remember perfectly my first trip to New York, when I was on the bridge between Brooklyn and Manhattan, when I saw the skyscrapers. It was like an incredible dream." ~ Diego Della Valle I am the epitome of a New Yorker. As an Upper East Sider, I am nestled cozily and comfortably in my [...]
"I demolish my bridges behind me - then there is no choice but forward." Fridtjof Nansen I am not a huge fan of heights. I blame my siblings, who use to put me on top of the fridge when they were babysitting me - all in the name of love of course. I would sit [...]