I don’t write about my dating life on this blog much (or at all, really). When you write about your life on the Internet, you gotta draw the line somewhere and I guess that line for me is discussing details of Relationships Past, Present or Future. I think it’s important to respect people’s privacy, which… Read More Dating When You’re A Broad: It Ain’t Easy!
I’m flying to Hawaii tomorrow. I could be staying there anywhere from a week to the rest of my life. Which course my life takes is entirely contingent on whether or not I find a job within the next six days. If I do, then I’ll stay in Honolulu and if I don’t, I’ll either… Read More When the Possibilities are Endless
Maybe you consider yourself a life-long travel-enthusiast because you have a passport stamp collection and an active Couchsurfing profile. But until you’ve taken your love for the road to the next level and gotten a travel tat, you can’t truly consider yourself a lifer. Because nothing says ‘travel addict’ like scarring a treasure map onto… Read More The 6 Best Travel-Themed Tattoos
Before Nicaragua or Guatemala, before I got a job with an airline or lived in Japan and before this blog existed or I even knew what the word ‘blog’ meant, there was India. And the four months I spent hauling my sweaty self up and down mountains and away from stampeding elephants and spitting camels.… Read More Big News: I Have My Own Column!
I’ve decided not to take that job in Nicaragua. After I’d made a list of all the things that I hoped to accomplish over the next couple of years, I realized that a good 90 percent of them I wouldn’t be able to do living in a village in the mountains of Central America. But… Read More Future Travel Plans: USA
I would have bought this blue Volkswagen bus and driven it back to California. I very nearly did. My roommates in Guatemala and I talked a lot about buying a VW van (they were for sale everywhere in Central in America and for as little as USD 600) and then driving it up through Mexico… Read More If I’d had 1,000 dollars…
I’ve been back on US soil for six days now and so far I haven’t felt even one ounce of reverse culture shock. And I gotta say, I’m a little disappointed. After my experience returning to New York from Tokyo and after reading this article on Vagabondish, I was actually looking forward to it. Reverse… Read More Home Again
I’m in Costa Rica right now and am scheduled to fly back to California tomorrow. But I might not be there for long. I got offered a job as a volunteer coordinator for a Canadian NGO in Nicaragua. The pay is decent and the job provides free room and board and get this, free Spanish… Read More So long Nicaragua….See Ya Soon?
I’ll be flying back to the US in four days. And I’m afraid. But not for the reasons you’d think. I’m not particularly worried about finding a job or making new friends (I’ve got a lot of experience at doing both) and even though I’m not ecstatic about moving in with the ‘rents again, I… Read More No One Ever Died of Boredom…Right?
I’d just arrived on the top of the volcano when it started to storm. From inside the visitors’ center I watched as the sky darkened and the rain came down in sheets. Thunder boomed overhead. “When does the last bus go back down?” I finally thought to ask. It was getting dark and I didn’t… Read More Alone and Stranded on a Volcano
