Dreams A girl can dream. I have, ever since my mother found me at age four digging a deep hole in our backyard and asked me if I was digging ... Read more
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Why Travel & Why We Miss Home?
Isn’t it amazing how we humans always want what we don’t have and not what we do? It’s the reason for the invention of hair straighteners, plastic surgery and tanning salons. It surely plays a big part in the reason why we travel. We find our own little world unbearably…
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Teaching English Abroad In South Korea
Having lived and taught English in South Korea for the last nine months, it’s difficult to put my experience into words. When I try to articulate what I’ve seen and ... Read more
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Are the Best Parts of Travel found in the Small Differences?
The everyday delights of visiting a friend in a small village in Germany One of my favorite things about visiting friends abroad is getting to experience home life in their ... Read more
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Camino De Santiago (200 KM Of Hiking In 10 Days) Solo Women’s Travel
When long-distance hiking gets personal, but not in the way you thought it would be The Camino de Santiago, or the Way of Saint James, is an ancient pilgrimage route ... Read more
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Tour Of Pompeii (Travels In Southern Italy)
At the gates of Pompeii, my views on tour guides were changed forever… I’m not sure where, but somewhere along the course of my life I’d acquired the notion that ... Read more
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Travel Photography: Pulling off the “Jump Shot”
I began to convince myself over €3 bottles of Riesling that certain silly ideas I daydreamed were worth pursuing. One of these midguided ideas was the “jump shot”.
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Teaching in Nigeria & Becoming An African Princess
The next day I walked to the village and everyone genuflected and addressed me as Rankaditti, which roughly translated as "Princess."
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The ‘Three Hots’ of Chongqing, China
We touch down on the runway at Chongqing’s airport and I glimpse at a heavy haze that weighs the city down. We disembark, gather our luggage from a sluggish carousel ... Read more