Learning to drive can be taxing. Yet after skiing on double black diamond slopes in elementary school and tumbling down the moguls with no one else nearby, to me it feels like a breeze. I think I treat it a little too much like Mario Kart. Cue the parents hollering at me to slow down when the red li...

Today in Istanbul, we visited the Spice Market and went on a boat ride on the Bosphorus Strait.

I visited Turkey with my family for a week this summer. We spent the first few days  of our trip in Istanbul, the tourist hub of the country.

Just as the baby ducklings follow the mother duck's lead, my brother and I have usually remained passive in the trip-planning process for past vacations. With only a couple mumblings of food recommendations from the internet, I stayed entirely out of the hotel booking, activity planning, and scheduling...