Travel Commentary

My Love/Hate Dichotomy When I Visit Athens, Greece I have this thing where I just can’t dislike a foreign city. It seems wrong. It’s really not that hard if you’re keeping an open mind to find something interesting or thrilling about a place that is not where you’re from and has different cultures, architecture, and food. [...]

Bittersweet Homecoming

by Gina on January 2, 2012 · 0 comments

It’s 3:30 in the morning and I’m wide awake. I should be going to bed to try to get my body clock back to normal, but sleep will just elude me if I crawl into bed. Instead I’m watching a Star Wars marathon on TV and feeling the familiar bittersweet feeling of being home after [...]

Time to Finish Eat, Pray, Love

by Gina on February 26, 2011 · 1 comment

I watched Eat, Pray, Love last week. I’ll be honest: I started, but didn’t finish the book. I read the Italy section and stopped after that, figuring if the author couldn’t make Italy that exciting of a read (as I was mildly bored during parts of it) then praying in an ashram didn’t have a [...]