The Arrival and First Breath of Santorini The first thing you notice about Santorini isnât the postcard-perfect whitewashed houses or the blue-domed churchesâthough theyâre every bit as stunning as Instagram promised. Itâs the light. Thereâs something about the way the Aegean sun kisses...
Hereâs the fully integrated and polished blog post with your hilarious flight story woven in seamlessly: Snow, Supercomputers, and Steve Wozniak: My Wild Week in Salt Lake City Picture this: Itâs October, Iâm leaving sunny Southern California in a T-shirt, thinking, Salt Lake City? Sure...
Rabat, Morocco: Where Serenity Meets Sovereignty Rabat is Moroccoâs capital, but donât expect the frenetic pace of Casablanca or the sensory overload of Marrakech. Instead, Rabat offers a calm, cultured, and surprisingly modern experienceâwhere wide boulevards meet ancient medinas, and...
Kasbah Tiffoultoute: Moroccoâs Desert Fortress of Film and Memory Nestled just a few kilometers west of Ouarzazate, the gateway to Moroccoâs Sahara, stands the majestic Kasbah Tiffoultouteâa fortress of red earth and ancient echoes. With its crenellated towers, labyrinthine passageways...
I arrive at East Village Tavern and Bowl at noon and the San Diego light looks the same as it did in my memory â bright, forgiving, the kind of sun that makes everything feel possible. Except today itâs now: people are streaming in with backpacks, sunglasses, and the kind of easy...
Twentynine Palms: Where Marines, Devil Docs, and Desert Dreams Collide If youâve never been to Twentynine Palms, California, let me paint you a picture: endless desert, Joshua trees doing interpretive dance, and a Marine Corps base so massive it feels like someone dropped a small city in...
Meeting SLOMO in Pacific Beach I first met SLOMO in 2012, on a sunlit afternoon along the boardwalk at Pacific Beach. The scene was alive with the usual chaos â skateboarders weaving through crowds, families balancing dripping ice cream cones, the oceanâs rhythm pulsing in the background...
Why Athens Should Be on Your Bucket List Imagine standing on a sun-drenched hill, gazing at the Parthenon as it glows golden against a deep blue sky. Below you, the hum of modern Athens blends with whispers from 2,500 years ago. This is Athensâa city where history isnât locked in museums;...
Rock Climbing, Hiking, and Laughing Our Way Through Joshua Tree When youâre stationed at Twentynine Palms, you learn two things fast: The desert is hot enough to melt your soul. If you donât escape occasionally, youâll start naming tumbleweeds like theyâre your pets. So when Commander...
October 9, 2010. High noon. The sun was shining, the air was crisp, and the alumni association had once again decided to test the limits of human endurance and liver capacity with the annual Purdue Big Ten Pub Crawl. The previous yearâs antics were still fresh in memory, but this time, we...