Trinidad offers some of the best street food you can find. From breakfast to dinner to midnight snacks, the food you can get from the various stalls and carts outside will rival just about any restaurant’s standard fare. For me, when the late afternoon hours stretch into dusk, the sight of a stall lit with a cloth wick in a [...]

Well, not really fishing. I’ll be gone alright—off to New York today to attend TECHmunch, and I’ll probably end up hiding in a dark corner battling first-day-of-school flashbacks. But it’ll be such a rare day for me away from work that it’ll feel like fishing.
 
Except, without the awesome seascape and saltwater spray.
 

 
 
 
And without the pretty boats lined up by the [...]

One of the perks of being married to my husband is that he loves to cook. And he’s more than pretty good at it. This is one of the dishes he prepares when we get nice, young eggplant at the fruit and vegetable market. It’s similar to baba ghanoush but with a few differences, the most relevant to us being [...]

I have been going nowhere with posting on this blog lately, it’s almost as if I were a giant spider who suddenly realized she’s in the middle of a mine field.
That sooo did not make sense.
Maybe I should just keep quiet and post photos instead. Like these shots from an Indian wedding we attended on our trip to Trinidad [...]

The quintessential coconut tree silhouetted against dusky skies. Not Maui this time – this is Toco in Trinidad & Tobago, taken in the summer of 2007.

Shot with a Canon Powershot A40.

Even when it’s raining, the Caribbean is still a beautiful place.

Taken with a Canon Powershot A40 – a 2.0 megapixel camera from 2002.
Man. Those Canon folks really know their stuff.