Jennifer L | Blue Wave Studio

Throughout my travels, I’ve had the chance to meet people with interesting backgrounds and fascinating stories. Many times these encounters are very brief, but enriching. During my Europe backpacking trip in 2003, my friend and I mostly stayed in hostels and not only was it an economical way to travel, the arrangement encouraged meeting all [...]

paris was absolutely wonderful and so pretty. the city is a close competitor to my favorite city of venice. it has something to do about the buildings with the iron gates on the roof, the view along the seine river, and the just the general feeling you get while walking around the streets of paris. [...]

if i had to describe rome, i would have to say that it’s magnificent. julie and i basically did rome in a day. we didn’t meet up with the ordained priests-to-be (the ones we met in venice) to score some tickets to midnight mass because we were beat by the time we got to rome. [...]

venice was – in one word – breathtaking. it’s got its own distinct character and is definitely one of its kind in the world. i had seen the classic picture of venice on postcards with the houses and the water and the gondola in the water, but i had no idea that that kind of [...]