First-time Travels

Through the eyes of the uninitiated.

Discover your untapped potential and become the hero of your own narrative, where every day is an opportunity for a new, epic adventure.

Claire Algarme - 4 January 2010 - 3:23 pm

Watching travelers in an airport coffee shop while waiting for my flight, I couldn’t help but wonder what 2010 has for me when it comes[…]

Claire Algarme - 27 April 2009 - 8:19 pm

When I posted online that I was embarking on a long trip and one of my destinations would be HCMC, so many asked me if[…]

Claire Algarme - 14 April 2009 - 12:55 pm

Years ago, after my return to the Philippines from a seven-month stay in Indonesia, I gifted myself with a Southeast Asian Travel Guide. It was[…]