Category | Travel Tips

7 Tips for Being Productive While Traveling

Posted on 19 September 2008

This has been a struggle for me all summer.  You show up in Paris, and you can either sit down with your laptop or explore the Latin Quarter.  Guess who wins?  If you’re trying to balance travel and work (for me, writing) you might find it harder than you thought.  Pre-trip, I imagined cranking out [...]

A Brief Encounter with the Spanish Medical Establishment

Posted on 14 September 2008

It’s been a strange weekend. My husband has contracted some mysterious virus, and I’ve been playing nurse and trying not to catch what the doctor called, “very contagious”. I will find out soon enough if I have it. It’s kind of like buying a lottery ticket and hoping your number doesn’t come [...]

The Traveler’s Dilemma: When You Fall in Love With a Place

Posted on 08 September 2008

You have big plans to see the world. Then two months into your journey it happens: you find a place you love. A place you don’t want to leave, where you could imagine living forever. For me it was the beaches of El Cotillo, where you drive down a dusty dirt [...]

The Truth About Skype

Posted on 02 September 2008

Someone asked me recently if Earth Class Mail was living up to expectations after using them for a month.  Honestly the service has been flawless and I am still as thrilled as when I posted the review.  However, not everyone can live up to ECM standards.
Skype, on the other hand, has been nothing but heartache.  [...]

5 Clues It’s Time to Change Hostels

Posted on 18 August 2008

I schlepped my backpack, laptop and camera across town, getting properly lost along the way.  The 5 minute walk turned into an hour long hike, as I overshot my destination and searched in the wrong neighborhood.  Finally I climbed four flights of stairs and knocked on the hostel door.  “Hello?  Hostel?”  The woman shook her [...]

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*Where is Christine now?



  • Currently traveling through the US to MEXICO

  • Past Trips (while living in Madrid):
  • Paris 7/13/08 - 7/18/08
  • Brussells 7/19/08 - 7/21/08
  • Lisboa 8/5/08 - 8/8/08
  • Venice, Bologna, Croatia 8/13/09 - 8/19/08
  • La Tomatina (Valencia area) 8/25/08 - 8/28/08
  • Canary Islands 9/2/08 - 9/6/08
  • Dublin 9/8/08 - 9/12/08
  • Morocco 9/15/08 - 9/18/08
  • and returned to Vermont on 9/20/08.


Tenative travel dates

  • Updated on my Dopplr Profile
    • Belize City in December
    • Antigua Guatemala in December
    • Tegucigalpa in January
    • San Salvador in January
    • Managua in February
    • San José in February
    • Panamá in March
    • Cartagena in March
    • Quito in April
    • Lima in April
    • Santiago in May
    • Buenos Aires in May
    • Sao Paulo in May
    • Caracas in July
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