I wrote once that it took living out of a backpack for me to realize how much I enjoyed living with less. When you’re changing cities every three days, or going through customs at fifteen different borders — you don’t choose to simplify, you’re forced to. Quite literally, when traveling for months at a time, the […]
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13 Favorite Photos From 2013
Do you have any idea how difficult it is to choose thirteen photos to highlight from over 8,000? Yes, that is roughly how many photos I took traveling last year. So, how did I choose? I poured over every last picture to find one from each country. The criteria was quite simple: make me feel like […]
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How Travel Changed the Way I Set Goals
(Or: on getting and staying gutsy) 2013, for me, was a lot of things. One thing it was not? It was not boring. Not even in the slightest. After several post-college years of feeling complacent and stuck, of doing what was easiest or staying put in situations that my gut was telling me to get […]
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Should You Go Abroad During the Holidays?
As I approach this time of year, I find myself reminiscing about holidays past. Most of those memories involve Christmas traditions with my family, wrapping gifts, eating far too many sugar cookies. Some of those memories, however, include drinking hot cocoa on the Eiffel Tower, picking up fruit and cheese from a local market for […]
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Five Tips For Pro Packing (Plus, My RTW Packing List and Tips)
How does a part-time traveler who only has experience packing for weeks at a time pack for months on the road? I realize that this post has been written over and over again, and quite well, by practically every traveler online. I’m still going to write it. Why? Well, I still get questions about it. […]
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