Hello there and welcome to There & Around! If you are reading this, we think that somehow, deep inside your soul, you are yearning to travel or sustain your passion to globe-trot endlessly.
Through this channel, we get to encourage you to TRAVEL more and EAT adventurously, understand different cultures, make new friends, experience new feats, and each time bring home with you a magical suitcase of memories that will last you a lifetime. We also want to be able to look back at this in the future and reminisce about today and all the good things we were able to experience with all of you.
So here it is and welcome to our page. Browse along and hang out with us and let us take you through our humble, but very memorable adventures and mishaps. Hopefully we move you to pack your bags soon, let your sail out, and find the courage to create moments you’ll hold on to forever. It is a wonderful world out there so take life in with positive eyes and appreciate everything around you. Take that great leap and never look back.
We hope you have fun reading and viewing as much as we love sharing this passion with all of you!
GET TO KNOW US:
Liz is a proud Filipino, born and raised in the Philippines. She graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, but because her affection for all things sweet, it wasn’t long before she found herself in kitchen clogs and chef’s whites, following her dreams and embracing all that pastry arts school has to offer. After graduating, she worked for the Westin Resort in Macau. Soon after, an unexpected love story brought her across oceans to the beautiful San Francisco Bay Area, where she now lives with her loving and amazing photographer of a husband, Nash. With him, she is blessed to have a very caring and kind best friend, who not only encourages her to pursue her dreams and be the best in everything she does, but also shares the same love and enthusiasm for travel and photography.
After getting married, Liz soon landed her dream job at the Ritz-Carlton Half Moon Bay, to which she would forever be grateful, because not only had she found a second family there, but she also had the most amazing training and experience one could possibly have as a pastry cook. And eventually, through sweat and tears, as an assistant pastry chef. After seven long years, she courageously decided to give herself a chance to pursue the other things she is also very passionate about, which are travel/food writing and photography. After all, according to her, we only live life once, so why not do everything and regret nothing! Hence, the beginning of There and Around.
Nash was raised in the Philippines and moved here in the US to study college. He graduated with a BS degree in Computer Information Systems from Kansas Newman University. His passion for photography sprang into life when he went on his first European trip a few years back. The images that he took from this trip created in him a marked interest to learn more about this craft and sooner than he thought, he was already producing remarkable images full of stories and emotions. Because of his IT background, it became easy and natural for him to immerse himself in digital imaging.
His repertoire includes portrait and travel photography, and he is now exploring and training himself in food photography. His free spirit, coupled with his constant thirst for travel, provides him a unique perspective in the images he shoots. Through this site, Nash is very excited to share with the readers his photos that not only capture the stories behind their adventures, but also invokes a deeper understanding of the different people and cultures they come across in their travels.
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