Do you dream of traveling in Egypt? Of witnessing the pyramids before your very eyes and soaking in the beautiful hubbub of Cairo? Do you want to experience the ancient country from the Nile, with a riverbank view that has remained practically unchanged since the time of the Pharaohs? Continue reading
A Day at the Museum: Los Angeles Natural History Museum
Photo: Los Angeles Natural History Museum
You don’t have to be an anthropology major like me to enjoy the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. This world-class museum boasts some of the best collections of dinosaur fossils, precious gemstones, and ceramics from Central and South America anywhere in the world. Continue reading
Plan a Girls’ Trip
What’s even better than a girls’ night out? A girls’ trip! Longer and more intense, filled with new experiences and different perspectives, a girls’ trip can reinvigorate your life and those of your friends with an injection of fun, frivolity and fearlessness. When planning a group vacation, someone will usually take the lead and be the main hotel booker, activities arranger and tour persuader. Since you are reading this article, chances are that person is you. Even if you have never so much as road tripped to the beach, you can plan a girls’ trip that will be memorable, rejuvenating and relaxing. Continue reading
Top Ten Party Cities in the USA
What’s This Extra Sink For? (Anzio, Italy)

“Okay, you start hand washing the laundry and I’ll run to the cash machine and buy some wine and cheese for our picnic on the beach,” I said to my boyfriend Joe as I walked out of the hotel room.
“Sweet, see you soon!” he replied, dumping out a garbage bag full of dirty laundry onto the bathroom floor.
We had been backpacking across Europe for almost a month; having traveled through the Netherlands, Belgium, France and Spain, we know found ourselves in Anzio, Italy. Continue reading
Imprisoned in Napier, New Zealand: Shilo in Solitary Confinement
Napier is a coastal town on the east side of the North Island of New Zealand, known for its excellent wine production and Art Deco architecture. But what I will forever remember most about the city is my night spent in a Napier Prison. Continue reading
Silver Lake Lowdown
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Shilo’s Cities: Sydney in a Week
Sydney is a cosmopolitan city on the edge of the Australian world, on the scale of New York or Paris but with a big and beautiful harbor, a fun-loving population, and beaches with shades of blue you never thought possible. The adventure that is Sydney could never be “done” in a week or even a lifetime, but if you have a few days to get a taste of the energetic Aussie metropolis, these are my suggestions. Continue reading
Living Naturally in San Sebastian
Reims Cathedral
Built from 1211-1300 A.D., the Cathedral of Notre Dame at Reims represents the apogee of French religious architecture and the High Gothic style. It has served as the coronation church for 26 kings of France, from Louis VIII in 1223 to Charles X in 1825. The most outstanding feature of the cathedral is it’s facade with hundreds of sculptures whose masters attained a realism and perfection not seen in European art since Greek classicism. Continue reading






