Okay, I mean…physically obviously you can. As is shown by how very, very, very grounded we are all right now. Both in the ‘actually stuck on the ground’ and also the ‘feeling like a teenager who got grounded and can’t leave the house to hang out with her friends’ sense of the word. But figuratively, …

Continue reading You Can’t Keep A Traveler Down

Okay fair warning you guys, this post is gonna start off a little sappy-sad! But as promised, the positive outlook I’m going to keep in all of my posts isn’t too far down, and I promise it’s worth the read. I want to start by telling you that one of the hardest, and most amazing, …

Continue reading How Missing My Friends Abroad has Taught Me Valuable Coping Lessons

So, like everyone else right now, I've been freaking out a little bit these last few weeks. And it's possible I've been letting some things stress me out a little more than necessary. For example, thinking a lack of having my own clothes where I'm quarantined was, quite literally, the end of the world. On …

Continue reading Dear Clothes, I miss you.

Travel will test you. It will push you outside your comfort zone and into the unknown. It will put a mirror dead in front of you and not let you look away. But it will also give you strength you never knew you had and cunning that will even surprise you sometimes. But mostly, it …

Continue reading Lessons I’ve learned Traveling that I’m Thankful For Now

Okay my weary travelers, I don’t know about you but I am becoming weary in an entirely new way! Once exhausted from long (yet exhilarating) journeys, slow-going yet thorough research on our next destination or lengthy (sometimes windy and completely confusing) walks from train stations to hostels, we are now exhausted from the exact opposite! …

Continue reading Tips for ‘Seeing’ the World from Inside our Homes

So, I think it’s safe to say we are all processing what’s happening in our world right now in a lot of different ways. Everyone is asking questions not only about the present but also about the future. And while I’m trying to focus on the present, because truly we don’t know what the future …

Continue reading Finding an Optimistic View in a Sea of Chaos

There’s a million and one ways to travel, and like most other things in life, there’s no one size fits all method. And often how you think you prefer to travel will change and evolve as times goes on. But as a baseline, I recommend building your early travels in the way that you feel …

Continue reading Find Your Travel Style – and own it!

There are a lot of things in this world that are out of our control. Taxes. When our car battery decides to die when we’re absolutely sure we didn’t leave any lights on overnight. When we book a place to stay, our flight gets delayed, we can’t get a hold of the hostel to tell …

Continue reading Sometimes the Path Finds You

So before we go any further, let me explain what I mean by the “unknown” a little bit more. It’s everything that is on the other side of that plane, train, bus or boat. When you’re on the side that’s getting on that plane, the unknown can seem intimidating, worrisome and even scary. But when …

Continue reading Finding the Unknown

Okay friends, I’ll be really honest with you. No matter how many times I get on a plane to a new country, there’s always that little bit of fear inside me. But what I’ve learned over the years is that the fear is okay, it’s totally normal and actually a good thing! I’ll talk a …

Continue reading Finding the Fear