SUSTAINABLE TRAVEL
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Zero Waste Grocery Shopping| How to Select Fresh Fruits and Vegetables
That’s me, picking up apples at the farmers market, selecting them by their color palate. What you can’t see is my best friend off-camera reminding me I’m allergic to apples and urging me to put them back before I have an allergic reaction. Simply put, I’m trash at picking fruit, my batting average is 100 if 100 means that I always buy a spoiled bruised fruit. This means there are many times on my travels that I miss out on experiencing the local market culture because I don’t know how to select fresh fruits and vegetables. I’m often left totally at the mercy of predatory stall owners that can spot…
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A Color Story | Curating Capsule Clothing
I’ve always liked the idea of capsule collections yet couldn’t get on board with them due to their commitment to being Normcore Porn. Every single example told me I needed the perfect T-shirt and black denim skinny jeans. In an effort to combat the need to join the buying frenzies that the holiday season kicks off I decided to compile a list of my core outfit staples. Low and behold my clothing chart began to form a capsule collection of sorts. I am a maximalist’s dream of minimalism. I want to live in a yurt by a ravine, with a trapdoor that leads to my high tech storage vault of…
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Simple Luxury | Fall tailgating picnic
I was so excited when I was approached by Zipcar to write a post and receive some drivetime, it gave me an opportunity to get grounded by hitting the road in NYC. I was able to enjoy the simple luxury of a morning alone before school pickup by having a fall tailgating picnic alone, to honor my mom. My mother was born on the tropical island of Jamaica, with its incessantly lush green landscape, when she came to America she was instantly smitten with the new to her season of Fall and all it had to offer. Some of my oldest memories are of annual apple picking trips she took…
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Coney Island Beach is packed visit these NYC Beaches instead
My idea of paradise is living within walking distance to the beach. NYC made up of a series of islands is full of beaches. My childhood home is a mere fifteen-minute train ride to the closest beach. This year I realized that as much as I needed recharging from the hustle and bustle of NYC, I didn’t make it to the beach nearly as much as I wanted. Realizing I’ve kept myself from my happy place, for thirty years just because the mode of transport that would get me to one of these NYC beaches in 15 minutes was not my feet alone. So this year I an effort to…
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New York City Kids |5 places for Camping with Toddlers
I don’t know if it’s just a certain age kid get to but right around two, every child I encountered in New York City was talking about camping. I’m pretty sure this has more than a little something to do with smores. As a child camping meant being shipped off to some faraway place to learn survival skills, however now that I’m a mom myself I started looking for something a little closer to home to quelch my toddler’s desire to sleep under the stars. What follows is an exhaustive list of all the campgrounds within New York City to take your kids to this summer. New York City has…
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Sustainable City | Whittier California
Outside of Los Angeles and the Bay Area I’ve never truly adventured into California. Spending three days in the city of Whittier California I got the chance to see a different side of California. Whittier is a picturesque quiet city bordered by beautiful mountains with an abundance of lush rolling hills. If you time your visit right you’ll catch a glimpse of the biannual blooming Jacaranda trees, that pepper the sidewalks of the older neighborhoods. The trees, long ago imported from some far away land, are noticeable by their animated purple leaves that look ripped from the pages of a Doctor Seuss book. Whittier California is home to Whittier College…
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Places to visit in the Bay Area Perfect for a Family Picnic
When traveling as a family sometimes eating can be your largest expense. one of my favorite ways to save a little money for more experiences when traveling is to pack a picnic. California with its beautiful weather and abundance of natural wonders was the perfect place to spread out amongst nature and enjoy a scenic meal. Here are the best places to visit in the Bay Area perfect for a family picnic. San Jose There is no shortage of roses in San Jose. The fragrant flowers provide the perfect backdrop to a family picnic. There are two major Rose Gardens in San Jose California, the Municipal Rose Garden, and the…
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Fun things to do in NYC with your friends and your Friends kids
Let’s face it, becoming a parent is hard, becoming a parent before all your friends do is even harder. Since giving birth my friends have (quite shamelessly) replaced their love for me with the love of my daughter. In an effort to still get invited with them on outings I’ve pretty much scoured the NYC for fun things to do that I can entice both them and my daughter with. The following activities have kept a room full of toddlers thoroughly entertained as well as left parents raving. It’s so nice to know that there are fun things to do in NYC for both your adult best friends and the…
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Sustainable City | San Jose California
When I told people I was heading to San Jose California they smiled and nodded dismissively. When polled about where to go in San Jose no one I asked had a any recommendations about the city. So my expectations weren’t high when we touched down in this Bay Area city FAR from the bay. San Jose California feels like the golden girls met Better Call Saul. It’s a nostalgic tv throwback doing everything right. Palm tree fronds bow to meet oak leaves and provide shade for earth tone dwellings in the kind of color pallet my dreams are made of. It’s a city that feels like it lacks an underbelly.…
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Simple Ways to Help the Environment on your Next Family Trip
They say the most sustainable form of travel is scrolling your Instagram feed. The carbon emissions of jet fuel is the absolute worst. I don’t know about you, but I for one want to continue traveling the world, seeing new places and experiencing new cultures. As a mother ensuring Mother Nature in all her glory is there for my daughter to wander on her own when it’s time is of the utmost importance to me. The only way to preserve Mother Nature and all her glorious secrets for the future is to do what I can to save her now. If resisting the call of adventure isn’t in the cards…
