Archive for the 'go green' Category

another cenote

Tuesday, July 20th, 2010

Swimming in a cenote in mexico

my new eco-friendly carry on

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010

environmentally friendly luggage by samsonite and american tourister

eggs for dinner with my fellow boston bloggers

Sunday, May 9th, 2010

Boston food blogger dinner at stella in the south end by Kitchenbelle and eggland’s best

when you walk…

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

sights in boston you can see while walking

whales love water

Monday, February 15th, 2010

A recent impulse purchase from Boutique Fabulous…

1% of the sale of this bottle supported the conservation work of The Nature Conservancy.

las flores de costa rica

Monday, February 8th, 2010

For the past couple of weeks I have been without my external hard drive because the cord broke and as a result, I have been without my photos – that’s where I keep them. I have had to get creative with my posts lately – stealing from my own Flickr and Facebook accounts on occasion [...]

los animales de costa rica

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

One of the strangest things I saw in Costa Rica had to do with something close to home, almost.
In Manuel Antonio while eating lunch we saw a cat darting across the ground with something in his mouth. My brain was trained to see a mouse or a tiny rodent hanging from his teeth, but instead [...]

zipping through arenal

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009

After spending our first night at Adventure Inn in San Jose, which was lovely, Mike and I woke up early to catch our bus to Arenal. Here, we stayed at Hotel Paraiso, which was kind of a destination all its own.

Our room was this tiny little cabin with a porch and a set of two [...]

blog action day 2009: climate change

Thursday, October 15th, 2009

Once again, it is officially Blog Action Day 2009 and this year’s focus is on climate change.
A new U.N. environment report revealed that healthy oceans are one of the keys to combating climate change and preventing the destruction of marine life could help offset between 3 to 7 percent of current fossil fuel emissions. As [...]

i saw a whale breach

Monday, September 28th, 2009

The weekend trip to Gloucester with Mike never really happened because we couldn’t justify throwing a hotel room on the credit card after buying plane tickets to Costa Rica and paying for our two kittens to get spayed.
We thought about going on a day trip to salvage the whale watch that I had purchased a [...]