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Once again, stepping out into the southeast Asian sun in Singapore had me spellbound: This was everything and nothing like I could have ever expected. Gone were the tuk-tuks crowding the streets, replaced instead by neat rows of tiny sedans and sports-cars. Towering skyscrapers defined the landscape of the entire city-state, making the island feel …
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8-24-17 | 2:21 p.m. EST Safely on the other side of the Atlantic, a speedy flight thanks to a personal Harry Potter movie marathon, I'd like to offer some final reflections. Traveling has the uncanny ability to make me feel both older and wiser, bewildered and boundless. All of my new experiences and sleepless nights abroad …
8-22-17 | 9:22 a.m. local time Well, we are already boarded on an outbound train to Berlin from Leipzig this morning. I've traveled somewhere with Kate and our (now slightly more condensed) pile of suitcases on nearly every form of public transportation imaginable in the last 7 days. Leipzig yesterday was fascinating, for the parts …
8-21-17 | 6:14 p.m. local time Sitting here, on Eva's couch with my knee propped up, Kate on my left editing photos, and NASA streaming solar eclipse coverage on the TV monitor, I honestly can't script a more quintessential European travel moment than this. After flying back from Rome to Berlin on Sunday morning -- …
8-20-17 | 6:53 a.m. local time Sitting on the other side of airport security is beginning to be a theme here in Europe. Kate and I are early-awake, after riding in more-than-a-little-less frightening taxi ride than our first Roman taxi experience, at 5:45 a.m. this morning. The ride out of the Eternal City was one …
8-18-17 | 5:46 p.m. local time We are shaded, and we are still hot. Rome is a dizzyingly constructed city, with ample alleyways and close proximity monuments, but boy-oh-boy is it hot in the summer! Currently we're skirting a stifling 95F degree cloudless heat at pretty much all times throughout the day. The shower we …
Bethany N. Bella 