make the journey your destination
We all carry our identities with us when we travel. How do we reconcile the baggage that comes along with them? In this essay, I talk about the best and worst parts of being an American and how they come together to shape my experiences as I travel.
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“Everyone of a hundred thousand cities around the world had its own special sunset and it was worth going there, just once, if only to see the sun go down.”~ Ryū Murakami, Coin Locker Babies Although sunsets happen everyday, as a hardcore city dweller, I don’t witness them too often. So when I do witness…
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It’s a wrap on 2018; looking back on the incredible year it’s been.
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Denali National Park, Alaska I’ll admit that Alaska was barely on my radar until Sarah Palin amused the masses during the 2008 U.S. presidential election. Eight years after she talked about being able to see Russia from her backyard, I finally made it to Alaska during Labor Day weekend, the unofficial start to the fall…
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I had a dream when I was in my late teens. That I would live in the mother of all cities: New York City. When I finally arrived there for graduate school in 2008, it was exactly as I had imagined it. A city whose sights and sounds never faded at any time of the…
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15 top travel quotes about meaningful, soulful, mindful travel. Make the journey your destination.
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Confused with all the options for where to stay when traveling? Find out why I choose to stay at an Airbnb over hotels or hostels.
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Somewhere on the internet, there is a gif about millennials that shows them yelling I QUIT at their boss and picking up their backpack to spend the rest of their lives as a “digital nomad” working their way from continent to continent. Well, it all does sound quite grand, doesn’t it: the idea of never…
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