Travel

Colombia, an unexpected story

Each trip needs surprises, and Colombia amazed me. I landed in this country expecting nothing but rampant…

Costa Rica: Discovering la Pura Vida 🇨🇷

I caught a glimpse of paradise as my plane slipped between the clouds and revealed a…

Top 10 things to experience in Mexico

We are going to take a look at ten of the most memorable experiences I’ve had so far in…

How to visit Teothiuacan

If you ever find yourself passing through Mexico City, then you owe it to yourself to visit the Teotihuacan…

The Beginning

If you’re coming to my blog you may already know a thing or two about me. For those of you that don’t, my name is Sanel Selimovic and I am a UX designer living in San Francisco.

Dealing with Anxiety

Something I didn’t foresee when I made my somewhat abrupt decision to pack up and go was all the anxiety I would be dealing with. It’s a big step and in some ways I don’t want to do it but I also realize it’s inevitability. I don’t feel like I ever had much of a choice in this. It was almost…

Welcome to Japan

I arrived into the land of the Rising Sun ironically enough just as the sun was setting. I found the entire airport experience to be quite pleasant despite all the warnings I have read about the Japanese folk not being very friendly to foreigners and not speaking any English. In contrast my…

Contrasts

Get ready to laugh and cry as I take you down a road of contrasts. The thing I take away from Tokyo is that Japan and it’s people are embodied by contrasts. In a few steps one can go from standing inside some of the most sophisticated LED light shows to a temple that’s hundreds of years old. So let’s take a…

Save me from Sydney

I completely understand why Sydney was a penal colony. It is the most overrated, poorly designed city I’ve ever been to. In my mind it stands for nothing and represents nothing. There’s a reason they had to comission a crazy architect to build the Sydney Opera House to put them on the map.

Welcome to Melbourne

When we first dropped our bags on apartment floors, took our broken hearts put them in a drawer. Everybody here was someone else before, searching for a sound we hadn’t heard before. And it said…

Welcome to New York — Taylor Swift