Tag: travel
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My Interview in Italy!
Several months ago I did an interview with the Italian magazine Intervistato. Maria, the interviewer, was SO delightful! We chat for half an hour about my life, MasterChef, cooking, and travel. There are many stories in this interview that haven’t appeared anywhere else, including one of the most amazing moments in my life where I…
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Australia, part 1
Greetings from Sydney, Australia! I’m sending this on Friday morning at 10:00am, but for most of you it’s 5:00pm on Thursday. J-P and I flew here yesterday after just barely escaping a big ice storm that practically shut down the DFW airport just a few hours after our plane departed. Our flight from Los Angeles…
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Australia, part 2
So we just spent a lovely day in Sydney, doing all the quintessential Sydney things… I stripped naked in front of the opera house and got a fantastic Butt and Scarf photo. We strolled through The Rocks, a collection of the oldest buildings in Australia. We took the ferry to Manley, Sydney’s beach town, and…
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Australia, part 3
I’m sorry I haven’t written in three days. It’s not because I haven’t had access, a connected computer has been sitting next to my bed the entire time. It’s simply because these Aussies live a RIDICULOUSLY hedonistic lifestyle, and we’ve just been caught up in it all. After our long day in Sydney, we wanted…
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Australia, part 4
This one will be short, but I figured I’d better bash off another before we head off to New Zealand, where our time will be short and we probably won’t have time to write… This morning we had coffee at the house of a man named Killer. He’s an automechanic, and I was a bit…
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Australia, part 5
Greetings, all! J-P and I are safely back in Dallas, about a week earlier than expected. Due to a number of reasons, we decided to cut out the New Zealand portion of our trip, and headed straight from Perth to Hong Kong. On the way we flew right over the interior of Borneo/Sarawak, one of…
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Belize, part 1
Hola from beautiful Flores, Guatemala! Many of you knew that I was going to Costa Rica after the fall dinner party with my college friends Nate and Sandy and Christian. As it turns out, the flights were full to Miami, so we had to rethink our trip entirely. Flying by the seat of our pants,…