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 […]
When You Were A Child, What Did You Dream You’d Become?
“When you were a child, from the earliest that you can remember, what did you say you wanted to be when you grew up?” That’s the question I like to ask people when I want to get to know the person inside. Not the person who is sitting across from me based on outward appearances, […]
The Books and Websites that Changed My Point of View
Before I started traveling, I never read anything that caused me to confront my own mind. I didn’t really believe that my down times could be remedied by anything other than distraction. That’s part of the reason why I started traveling – I thought it would solve everything. Then I realized that the problems I […]