McCool Travel is excited to present tips from travel experts in our 5 Minutes interview series featuring travel industry giants, super frequent travelers, and adventurous persons.
For the 18th profile, I am honored to present Sonia Zamborsky. Sonia is half of the team (with her boyfriend Mark Schramm) at Pulpology.com–with the great tagline of “Mark & Sonia’s Intercontinental Absurdities.” RWhen not traveling, Sonia lives in the Metro DC area.
Always in my luggage…
camera, journal, colored pens
3 favorite home-away-from-home places…
- San Francisco, California
- Monteverde, Costa Rica
- Bratislava, Slovakia
A favorite travel memory is…
getting invited to a private party at a wine bistro in Florence and having so much to drink we started conversing in Italian (neither of us speaks Italian beyond the basic pleasantries)
3 favorite travel brands…
- Eagle Creek
- Keen
- JetBlue
3 money-saving travel tactics I use are…
- cook our own food as much as possible, with ingredients from local markets
- find airfare deals on Twitter
- Couchsurf
3 ways that I have fun while traveling are…
- take cooking classes
- scuba dive
- sit in cafes and people-watch
8 word (or less) travel mantra…
Life is short, eat dessert first!
My favorite non-travel website…
Most memorable souvenir…
a set of foot-shaped carved wooden bowls from Borneo
Favorite cheap eat…
Pho
Thank you, Sonia, for sharing your thoughts with McCool Travel and may you have countless more memorable travel adventures!
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