As with anything that ends, I get unbelievably nostalgic and sort of melancholic (whoa), and this SE Asia trip ending is no different. Hence, I find myself sitting here thinking over all the lessons I have learned and the new things I have picked up, as well as the things I left behind during the [...]
I remember when my sister and I first embarked on our backpacking trip around South America in 2008, I took with me my ancient Nokia cellphone, that only sometimes made phone calls and could maybe send a text if you asked it nicely, but that was about it. In order to find out information it was [...]
I really like the saying 'We all need the darkness, to see the light'. And it got me thinking of my time in South East Asia and some of the good and...not so good things that happened over there. So I decided to write a post on some of the highs - the good decisions [...]
1. “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” – Paul Theroux 2. “To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is [...]
