Blog, stories

International Love Affairs

  A year ago today I began three very different and unexpected love affairs. My First Love Affair The first love affair started off like most other love affairs. Slow and steady, taking my time trying to get to know what I was jumping in to. As if anyone actually knows what they are getting […]

Read more
thoughts

Wanderlust: What You Need to Know

  Your life will never be the same. I mean this in good and bad ways. Giving in to your wanderlust will rock you to the core, and change you in ways you never thought you would change (read The Gypsy Life: How Living Out of a Backpack Can Change You), but it will also […]

Read more
bucket list, stories

Don’t Go to Colombia, It’s Dangerous

  Saying yes to everything the universe had to send my way was one of the best mentalities I could have adopted while traveling. Yes took me to beautiful beaches, yes took me to Bocas del Toro and then to Colombia, yes made me new friends, took me mountain biking, rafting, dancing, and yes gave […]

Read more
bucket list, stories

How Living Out of a Backpack Can Change You

  Detachment From People and Things (In a good way) Relying on things or anybody else to make me feel some way was a guaranteed letdown. So many things went missing, or there simply wasn’t room for them in my backpack so I gave them away. The first time I purged a pile of stuff […]

Read more