Welcome to the Travel Section!
My blog’s home page features one of my favorite quotes: “We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.” Travel is an incredible journey: one that enriches our lives more than any other activity. I admit that traveling is often seen as a luxury that only the richest can afford.
I am a strong believer that it doesn’t have to be this way!
Traveling can take many forms: It doesn’t have to mean taking a big international trip to the other side of the world, staying in expensive hotels or paying for extravagant excursions. It could also look like taking a road trip, visiting a friend in a new city, even visiting a neighborhood you have already been to a hundred times with a fresh perspective.
Traveling is a mindset, one which can allow us to discover ourselves and others. It is something which connects us to the fabric of humankind and binds us together with those who come from different backgrounds. It is exhilarating and enlightening, but sometimes thrusts us outside of our comfort zones. It allows us to live life the way it was meant to be lived, and it truly does allow us to bestow meaning to every single moment.
This section will contain a series of deep and moving, comedic and exotic, quirky and fun travelogues. These are personal stories, and meant for entertainment purposes only. Travel is a great passion of mine, and I have always wanted a place to collect all of my travel memories. Therefore, this section will serve as a place to keep my travel stories alive, so that I can revisit them and share them with you. I hope you will enjoy perusing these stories of wanderlust, as much as I enjoy penning them! And I hope they will inspire you, too, to travel and explore more of our incredible world! (Of course, make sure you are being safe during the COVID-19 pandemic!)
Below, you will find links to some of my travel stories, divided by country:
Italy
Gelato Glitiz Series: Florence’s Great Duomo
Gelato Glitz Series: Rome Photo Story
Gelato Glitz Series: Napoli and Pompeii Await
Spain
Guest Post: A Guide to Spending 6 Days in Barcelona, Spain
India
India Study Abroad Series: Welcome
India Study Abroad Series: My First Few Days Abroad
India Study Abroad Series: A New Research Project and Family Time
India Study Abroad Series: Hello Monsoon Season
India Study Abroad Series: Lights, Camera, Action! Learning about Raman Spectroscopy
India Study Abroad Series: Adventures at Sinhagad
India Study Abroad Series: The Perspective of an ABCD
India Study Abroad Series: A Glass Half Full
India Study Abroad Series: K.E.M. Hospital Volunteering
India Study Abroad Series: Wanderlust: Through the Money Capital of India (Part I)
India Study Abroad Series: Cinematic Train Adventures and Photo Story (Part II)
India Study Abroad Series: Research Updates
India Study Abroad Series: Memories of Sadashiv Peth
India Study Abroad Series: A Bittersweet Parting with Pune
Kashi Stories Series: The Shining City
Mexico
Cruising Cozumel Series: Welcome
Cruising Cozumel Series: Brilliance of the Seas
Cruising Cozumel Series: Grand Cayman Islands
Cruising Cozumel Series: Setting Sail
Cruising Cozumel Series: Cruising Along the Atlantic and Other Ship Attractions
North America
Guest Post: A Guide to Spending a Day in Washington DC during the Cherry Blossom Festival