Coming home is a strange thing, especially for those of us who have studied, lived, or worked abroad for an extended period of time. It’s simultaneously exciting and terrifying. It’s kind of like returning to your childhood bedroom and finding it unchanged. It’s like running into your high school boyfriend and seeing that he is exactly […]
A Story About Love (But Not a Love Story)
I never saw this issue coming. I didn’t realize that there is one big thing standing in the way of me traveling forever. It’s not money, homesickness, or a desire for routine. It’s the absence of a partner in crime, a significant other, a love. When I tell people that I’ve been traveling solo for […]
Socially Awkward? Please Travel Alone
I remember the first moment that I was truly happy to be a solo traveler. It was in Chiang Mai in the third month of my trip (I’ve now been traveling solo for 15 months) and a friend and I had spent all day motorbiking around the surrounding mountains. They were beautiful, but come nightfall we […]
The Solo Journey Begins
Day One With about a million emotions flowing through me and my thoughts racing a mile-a-minute, I decided to live-blog this time (lifting the suggestion from my buddy Rob), to give you the full range of ups and downs this solo female traveler went through during her first day abroad: 1am at LAX: I was […]