Sunday, November 22: This morning we arrived in Luxor. Luxor is home to the Valley of Kings and Queens and it is full of temples and tombs. Today we visited Karnak and Luxor Temples. Honestly, all of the temples are starting to run together in my head. They feel kind of like churches in Europe; most of them are beautiful [...]

Honestly, I wasn't so great at keeping up on my diary for the second half of the trip. I was so good in Cairo, but much of the second half of my diary was written when I got home. Luckily it was still fresh in my mind. Thursday, November 19: When you have an action-packed two week vacation, I know not every day can be magical. Today was a non-magical day (except for the awesome camel ride) [...]

I just returned from a wonderful two week journey in Egypt with Jay, my Mom and Dad, and my brother, Kevin. I kept a diary during the trip, which I'll share in a few installments, as well as my tips for planning a trip to Egypt. Sunday, November 14: I'll never understand why some women travel in tight pencil skirts and stiletto high heels. Obviously, it is not comfortable. [...]

We spent last weekend on the island of Hvar, and we arrived without booking accommodations. We stepped off the ferry to the now accustomed barrage of little old ladies saying: "Do you need room?" "Apartment! Very close, very close. Come with me." "Accommodation? Accommodation?" We hesitated just long enough that they knew we might be interested, and we were surrounded within seconds. [...]

Zijo Jusufovic, our Sarajevo guide, said he was taking us to a place that represented hope and the goodness of mankind to him. The car stopped in front of a large old building that was completed gutted out and riddled with bullet holes. The building seemed to have seen more action during the war than any of the others we'd seen before, and like many other buildings outside the city center [...]

I can't decide if I love Milan for its high-end design, attention to detail, and copious amounts of eye-candy or hate it for its pretentiousness and conspicuous consumption. I only had two day to make my snap judgments, but I am leaning towards loving it. For a designer, being in Milan is wonderfully inspiring. Whether it's walking among the nearly 700-year-old pinnacles and spires on the roof of [...]