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      • Beach Porn Alert: 7 Reasons Why You Need To Put Lagos, Portugal On Your Bucket List Now
      • The Top Portugal Beaches To Visit
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    • Belize
      • Ambergris Caye
      • Caye Caulker
    • Cambodia, Koh Rong Samloem
    • Costa Rica
      • Arenal and La Fortuna
      • The Osa Peninsula, Corcovado National Park
      • Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica
    • Dominican Republic
    • Guatemala
      • Lake Atitlan
    • Indonesia
      • Ambon, Maluku
      • Bali
      • Gili Islands
      • Kai Island, Maluku
      • Raja Ampat
      • Sumatra-Belitung Island
    • Mexico
      • Cabo San Lucas and San Jose del Cabo
      • La Paz
      • Patzcuaro
      • San Miguel De Allende
      • Todos Santos-The Antidote To Cabo!
      • Zipolite Beach: A Complete Travel Guide
    • Portugal
      • Beach Porn Alert: 7 Reasons Why You Need To Put Lagos, Portugal On Your Bucket List Now
      • The Top Portugal Beaches To Visit
    • Sri Lanka
      • Colombo, Sri Lanka
      • Ella
      • Mirissa Beach
      • Yala National Park
    • Thailand
      • Bangkok
      • Koh Lipe
      • Phi Phi
      • Phuket
      • Railay Beach-Krabi Town
      • Your Thailand Songkran Water Festival Guide
  • Places To Stay
  • Food
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    They’re Coming To America-Why This Neil Diamond Song No Longer Holds True

    March 16, 2013 / 4 Comments

    “Coming To America”.  I remember dancing to this Neil Diamond song in my childhood over and over. My sisters and I would put on what we considered our most patriotic dress up clothes which consisted of some tube tops covered in sequins, or crazy hats, and dance and sing our hearts out to this record over and over again. Until one day, (I can’t say that I blame my parents), that record mysteriously disappeared. But, actually it didn’t just disappear. It was deliberately burned. I remember seeing it on top of the burn pile, my heart aching as my favorite music went up in flames. But my heart aches even…

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    Ubud has captured my heart and soul so much that I can’t just post one photo gallery. This is a place whose rice fields and streets I could walk every day for the rest of my life and still find something new to photograph.  I hope these pictures of Ubud capture the essence of Bali for you in the same way that living these moments did for me.

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    March 14, 2013 / 7 Comments

    The Magnolia Joglos are without a doubt, one of the places to stay before you die.  In fact, it is such a heavenly place, that you will probably think you did die and go to Heaven.  At least I did!! The Magnolia Joglos consist of a few Javanese open-air style joglos set in the middle of a rice field in Penestanan, an artist’s village, that is part of Ubud .  I stayed in the Passiflora one, and the minute I got there, I felt an extreme sense of peace settle in my being, the weight of the world being lifted from my shoulders, and knew that all of the yoga that I…

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    March 13, 2013 / 1 Comment

      Ubud, Bali is the place that stirs my soul and touches my heart in a way that no other place on Earth does.  And it doesn’t even have a beach.  Is it the gracious and smiling people?  The beautiful rice fields with their colors of electric green, dancing fireflies, butterflies, and chirping crickets?  Is it the spiritual energy in the air where everyone seems to know their place in the world?  Is it the misty mornings, the shining rainbows, or the scented air which smells of frangipani, sandalwood incense, and coconut oil.  You decide!

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    I think there is a lesson that I need to be learning on this trip.  The art of slowing down.  It seems that every bit of stress has been caused when I rush, when I go against the flow of  the pace of time that is here.  Always rushing to catch a plane, find a ATM, a boat.  That’s not the pace of these islands.  That is especially not the pace of Gili  Trawangan or Gili Air.  Yesterday, I ate lunch at the most relaxing place.  They were playing chill out music and I felt my body totally surrender as I sank into the brightly colored purple and green cushions…

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About Me

I am always looking for the perfect escape, the perfect paradise, the kind of place that tosses your cares into the sea. Fortunately, I have discovered many! I created this site to show you where to go and how to get there. My goal is to show you that Paradise is only a plane ticket (or boat ride) away. I have inspired many others to travel and to create a better life. I am available for inspirational speaking, coaching, writing, travel planning, and photography.

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