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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Costa Costa Rica can be summed up in one word. Magical. I am absolutely falling in love with this country and the people. I am beyond thankful I decided to buy a ticket and worry about the rest later. The universe is taking me to some really awesome places (Like Bocas del Toro, Panama […]
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#JungleProblems: What I Have Learned About Living in the Jungle Living in the jungle sounds really exotic and I think people romanticize the idea as some epic adventure. Well I have news for you, it is simply just another place to live, another place to adapt to certain ways of life, and learn certain lessons […]
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*Photo by Colt Fetters http://www.coltfetters.com On Sticking Out So I finally got to dip my toes into experiencing another country alone. Granted it’s the small and safe town of Puerto Jimenez and it’s only for a couple hours. I am sitting here at Monka Coffe Shop reflecting on my last few hours of solo wandering. […]
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Hitting a Wall There comes a point in everyone’s travels where you hit this wall, like what in the eff am I doing. Mine came quicker than I expected but I realized I have been couped up in one resort for 10 days. I love Blue Osa, it is beautiful and exactly what I need […]
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Progress, progress, progress. But where’s the Passion? Lately I have been fully absorbed with reading about how to improve my blog, what plug-ins to install, how to get more readers, how to get more followers on facebook, and twitter, how to even utilize twitter. And I started developing these negative feelings towards my blog. My […]
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If you read my blog Light My Way: What Getting Up at Sunrise is Teaching Me, then you know how powerful it can be to experience the first light of day. I have created a video to show you for yourself what it is like. This is a virtual sunrise on the beach of […]
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This is a short, simple video of the chaos, the tedious moments of waiting, and the excitement of international traveling. It begins packing in rainy Seattle, and end with sunrise on the beach in Costa Rica. This is how I met Costa Rica and how I started to fall in love with a country. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRyGT5mrHno&feature=youtu.be […]
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