Have you ever wondered what your zipcode does to your health? If you look around Boston proper, you’ve peer pressure to be active. After work, the path along the Charles river is loaded with walkers, bikers, and joggers. Likely as a result, its rare to see an individual with an expanded waist line. You don’t realize the culture until you step outside of it. Venturing up North only about an hour away, you’ll feel the difference, stares if you walk down the block and people while larger mid sections than most in Boston proper. While not the only indicator of health, an interesting byproduct of the culture in the different cities.
Read MoreCycle of Christmas
As the popular verse goes, “To everything there’s a season”. Now that it’s the week of September 1st , it’s the annual outflow of tourists and influx of new college students. Yesterday, Facebook reminded me of this moment, “No joke, today I saw at LEAST 35 moving vehicles parked in the city.” Around three-quarters of the city’s leases turn on Sept 1.
Read MoreWeather's influence
When you look at the clouds what do you see? Does the contrast in the sky start to tell you something? Does the color? If you’ve had experience in tornado alley, the moment you start to see hints of green, or a slight neon tone in the sky, your spider sense begins to engage. You know when it’s green, there’s a storm coming & you’d better move away from the windows.
Read MoreNot another travel blog
We live in an incredible time. Think back to your relatives that may have lived at the turn of the century—to travel internationally or even domestically was difficult. Other cultures were captured through illustrations, oral and written stories, and artifacts and filtered through the someone who has traveled in one’s social circle, neighborhood, or nearest city.
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