vacation

That’s just a primer for the wonders that await you in the city. Having lived in Singapore for 10 years, here are a couple of the activities and landmarks that you must visit during your time there.

Summer also meant being away from home, having to deal with college applications or courses, having to interact with people I’d usually never interact with and dealing with a lot of situations that I generally like to avoid. Although I continued to love the beautiful weather and the thrill of traveling, I quickly began to long for my more ordinary day-to-day life.

How will I show my face on campus without having added a half-dozen stamps to my passport or a half-dozen syllables to my resume?

Do I go to the pool? Hit the gym? Stay in front of my AC unit until school starts? Take this quiz to find out what you should do this summer!

Equipped with youthful moxie, during the summer of 2016, I decided to trek to the Amazonian village of Manacamiri to experience firsthand the life changing power of Ayahuasca and explore Amazonian culture.

Taking advice from those who have lived in or been to Oahu, we compiled our recommendations and headed off for an action-packed week in Hawaii.

I think everyone experiences this when traveling home for the first time in a while: the realization that the city we call home doesn’t hold its breath and wait for us to return. It keeps growing, decaying, expanding and even booming in our wake. 

Follow the guidelines below and I can personally guarantee that upon returning from your family vacation, you’ll only bring back pictures and positive memories.

Hopefully, any Californians willing to abandon their superior coast for a week or two will take my suggestions for things to do, straight from a New Yorker.

As a natural-born planner, I’ll never turn down an offer to create a detailed itinerary, so I thought I’d share my approach to planning the perfect day-trip.