I know of a place that few others do. It’s the kind of place where the silica-rich sand squeaks beneath your feet, you stop wearing shoes of any kind, don’t even think about brushing your hair, and since there aren’t any mirrors around, you stop thinking about how you look, too. It starts to become […]
Why Going Alone to Mozambique Was the Best Decision Ever
I walked along the beach after jumping off the boat from an amazing day of SCUBA diving in Tofo, Mozambique. The white sand squeaked under my feet and the waves rolled in lazily. I had just seen a whale shark underwater and was ecstatic. It had taken me several days of long bus journeys to get there, but […]
Maputo is Not as Bad as They Say
Remember at the beginning of November when I was about to board a plane and go to Mozambique in Southern Africa by myself? Remember how, fewer than two weeks before I was set to depart, the person I was meant to meet up with for the trip cancelled on me? Another girl had floated into his […]
Magical Iceland: How It Looks to Set Foot in Narnia
That we leave our homes, that we step through our doors to the world, that we travel our whole lives not because we want to collect exotic T-shirts, […] but because it has the power to renew us—not the guarantee, not the promise, just the possibility. Because there are places our imaginations can never construct […]
Going Alone to Mozambique
As this post goes live I’m sitting on a bus from Johannesburg bound for Maputo, the capital of Mozambique. If I’m honest, I’m kind of terrified. I keep telling myself it will be fine but honestly, I have no idea what lies ahead of me. I woke up to a strange message a week and […]