In a few days, fireworks will light the sky and party blowers will sound in the western world- Welcome to 2011! Even travel sites are abuzz with Top 10 lists of  Hot New Years Eve Destinations (aren’t fireworks sorta the same anywhere you go?). Meanwhile a week ago, my travel clock was ticking and my small life abroad in Korea was in a conundrum over inflating costs of holiday travel and the global list of options. Panic. Oh my God, where to be on New Years Eve?

Ringing in the New Year has symbolic connotations. You can spend it partying with friends at a club, meditating in a remote temple in hidden in the mountains, playing fireworks on the beach, or in the intimate gathering of house parties and family dinners. Either way, you’re celebrating the end of an old year and saluting the new. Thus, for many of us New Year’s Eve can feel special; our plans of what, where and with whom we ring in the new year warrants a bit of planning.

Homeless for the Holidays?

Until now, it’s been my tradition to spend my holidays with family in either, Hawaii or Las Vegas (my family loves Las Vegas!). Despite this monotony or the fact I lived in New York City (heralded home of Times Square‘s infamous New Year’s Eve (more…)