When I was a kid my mom would tell me my kisses were the best in the world. And I believed her, thinking there wasRead More...

Last year we were invited to a Passover dinner at a friend of a friend’s house. We had been in New York for 10 daysRead More...

My family usually reads my posts but this time they are busy trying to rescue people from the horrible earthquake rubble in Mexico. The requestRead More...

A couple of years ago I decided to stop listening to music I loved but brought me down. The first to go, or probably theRead More...

It has been almost two months since I turned my life around again. It seems like my life has a lot of turning around. MyRead More...

I am writing this from my new (and still empty) apartment in Astoria, Queens, NY, US. Me and my love arrived here exactly two weeksRead More...

This year I took a trip I never imagined I could take, I did something I promised myself never to do, and I am onRead More...

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In 24 hours we will be on a plane on our way back to where we flew out 6 months ago, scared, excited and notRead More...

Coming back to Mexico is always very intense for me. The culture and colors are so beautiful I wish I wish I wish I wereRead More...

One last swim in the French Broad river before I go. One last time to sit on the rocks and feel the water flow throughRead More...

I helped an 84 year old man up the steps and to the seat next to me. He lost his balance and almost fell, soRead More...

We went to a storytelling event where people shared how they ended up in Asheville, NC and the organizer used those words to describe whyRead More...

Sofia is a girl here in Panajachel that, along with her kid brother Luis, tries to sell us bracelets every time we go out toRead More...

It took only one hour to go from me not feeling so great to me lying in bed in excruciating pain. The palms of myRead More...

Ten years ago I had lived in 3 different countries and moved homes 14 times. I was starting to think about leaving Israel for yetRead More...

Our first stop in Costa Rica is La Fortuna, where the Arenal volcano stands. The town changed its name to La Fortuna — the fortuneRead More...

In 4 months we counted 42 different beds in 6 countries and who knows how many cities. So far it has been quite the adventureRead More...

In the Southern hemisphere, the Winter Solstice on June 21st is the shortest day of the year. The Inca, scared that the sun was abandoningRead More...

After a lot of back and forth we decided to book the 4 day Inca Jungle Trek that goes from Cusco to Machu Picchu. WeRead More...

We arrived in Cusco which is absolutely beautiful and unlike any other place I have been before. We booked a hostel that turned out toRead More...

Tuesday, 18:00 Pola and Avri go into a massage place. A woman greets them. Pola: Hi, we wanted to know if you offer massages. Woman:Read More...

The sky in Peru is white. My friend told me it was, and he was not wrong. Turns out, it is a real thing calledRead More...

When I was little my grandparents would come visit and we would all go to a water park. It was the best day ever. MyRead More...

These were our last 3 weeks. On a red truck. Atlanta, GA —> Pigeon Forge, TN —> Gatlinburg, TN —> Dollywood —> Smokey Mountains —>Read More...

With luck on our side, my brother and his wife were in Florida and we had one day to hang out. I hadn’t seen themRead More...

After Tennessee we drove into North Carolina and stayed in Asheville — a vibrant, hispter, farm-to-table, organic, liberal and beautiful city surrounded by gorgeous natureRead More...

We spent our last days in Colombia at a coffee and banana plantation in the coffee region of the country. We were the only guestsRead More...

When we left Israel we didn’t have much of a plan but we did agree that it would be fun to finish the trip withRead More...

I had 2 main fears living in Dallas in the 80’s. One, that I would inevitably die of AIDS. Two, that I would get kidnappedRead More...

For every really nice person we meet, there is one of these: Ext. Taganga Hostel — Pool area. Day Two girls are speaking in aRead More...

My very Mexican accent gets smiles out of the paisas (Medelliners) I speak to, but when they ask me where I am from and IRead More...

Avri has a cold so we couldn’t go to the Cocora Valley, home of the famous wax palm trees. It requires either a 6 hourRead More...

We were in the packed subway station waiting for the train when this happened: I don’t know if this is a “thing” they do nowRead More...

A fellow traveler told me a couple of weeks ago that he had to leave Medellin because the temptation was too strong with cocaine beingRead More...

I wasn’t expecting to love Cartagena. On my first day here I was feeling a bit of nature-withdrawal. After only having been in small townsRead More...

When I was 9 years old we moved from Dallas to Mexico City. My new school was tough — I didn’t speak the language, IRead More...

Minca’s trees are full of cicadas that make the loudest noise and, as I learned today, also pee on you. Well, they pee on treesRead More...

We visited a 120+ year old coffee plantation in Minca. A British company built the plant in the late 1800’s and brought the hydraulic machineryRead More...

The best part of Tayrona Park was not getting there on a speed boat that took an hour in rough open sea and made allRead More...

We ate breakfast at the hostel with a very cool couple in their late 40’s who came to Colombia for work and stayed to doRead More...

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We landed in Bogota and the flight attendant announced that the following people needed to approach the crew. Six names, all Israeli, mine and Avri’sRead More...

When I was 19 I backpacked through Europe for a couple of months, so I should know what I need more or less. Now IRead More...

I am one week away from leaving my stable(ish) life in Tel Aviv to travel around South and Central America. I should be used toRead More...

I don’t listen to new music anymore. For the past 10 years I have mainly stuck to the music I found and loved when IRead More...

Visual content has become digital marketing’s crown jewel in the past five years, but transmitting messages visually is something storytellers have been doing for quiteRead More...

You may know Pola Zen as the creator of our awesome customer videos. Her guest post shares what’s going on in the airline marketing industry, andRead More...