Like Eating A Single Potato Chip: What To Do If You Have To Pick Only One Destination

January 6, 2016

One of my least favorite words when it comes to travel planning is neither a noun nor a verb. It is a conjunction.

Or.

Of course, so is my most favorite word.

And.

What can I say? I’m a fan of conjunctions.

Yet sometimes you have to choose. (Do you see what I did there?) Sometimes you can’t visit all of the places and see all of the things and eat all of the food. For times like that, I bring you…

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Fat in a Bikini: The South Beach Experiment

December 3, 2014

I have long associated South Beach with the thin-life. To me, South Beach means: beautiful tan women with dental-floss-thin thong bikinis walking down the sidewalk. Which is why, a couple of years and several more spaghetti-and-wine-induced pounds later, I found myself pondering the horror of exposing myself—my fat, pale self—to the bright sun of Miami’s South Beach.