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Enemies and Friends in Normandy

July 30, 2013 12 Comments »

I stood staring at the wide expanse of Omaha Beach squinting my eyes, trying to imagine what that historic day was like. D Day seems so far away now – ancient. My mind was swimming in thoughts amplified by the fact that I was here visiting this WWII Normandy invasion sight with my European friends […]

Group Dynamics Patagonia

March 22, 2013 17 Comments »

I looked around the table and wondered – how did this happen? How is it that at 43 I’m the youngest one on this hiking trip AND I’ve got the dullest stories? For the first time in my travels, my travel and adventure experiences are overshadowed by the people around me. I eagerly ask them […]

Postcard from New York City

August 6, 2012 4 Comments »

After six years, I’m still never excited to come back to my home country. I wish I understood why I have such trouble coming back – but after many returns I still don’t understand it – all I know is that my current 5 month journey went way too fast and I can hardly believe […]

Looking for Excitement This Summer?

July 17, 2012 7 Comments »

Field of sunflowers

I looked out the window of my Turkish bus and my stomach seized up in knots. My eyes focused in on the field of yellow sunflowers and I was immediately reminded of how I spent my last summer – driving through endless fields of sunflowers through Central Asia on my way to Mongolia. My mind […]

Giving Thanks for Beds

November 24, 2011 10 Comments »

thanksgiving 1971

It’s Thanksgiving – time for overeating and reflection.  As I look back on my last five years of travel there are many things to be thankful for – but there is one thing that I feel an overwhelming wave of gratitude for as it is the main reason I can live this life I’m living. […]

Solo Travel Instincts

November 22, 2011 13 Comments »

solo travel

I pulled up outside of the airport and saw the flashing lights glaring, almost glowing, in the dark rainy night. I slowed down and pulled over hearing the gravel crunch under my tires. I flashed my lights twice as a signal that I had arrived. The van immediately took off and I followed dutifully. But […]

Travel Serendipity

October 27, 2011 18 Comments »

Oahu

Serendipity is when someone finds something that they weren’t expecting to find. This is normally associated with a good outcome – something pleasant and unexpected. However I had the pleasure and misfortune of experiencing travel serendipity twice on the same day – the day I arrived in Hawaii. I’m on the move again; albeit for […]

Traveling with Strangers

October 25, 2011 18 Comments »

social media syndicate

Before I departed on the Mongol Rally, when I told people about what I was doing this summer they were surprised, but consistently it was one topic about the epic road trip that fascinated people most. It wasn’t the inappropriate car or the length of the trip. It wasn’t the fact that my team had […]

This is What People with Passion Do

September 29, 2011 18 Comments »

hate your job

  Passion is a weird thing, it can take over your life, and it can make you do things you otherwise would never do. Passion is powerful. Passion is crazy. Passion is a drug. Passion is blinding. Passion wakes me up early in the morning. Passion makes me go to bed late at night. My […]

Couchsurfing Regrets

October 12, 2010 63 Comments »

I live my life very deliberately – and I have very few regrets. In fact, my regrets are the usual…I wish I would have kept up my violin skills, I wish I would have learned how to ski at a young age, and I really regret I didn’t learn a language in college. But now […]