McCool Travel Tips: 5 Minutes With Sonia Zamborsky

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…

GardenRant.com

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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