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The Biggest Adventure of All: I Married My Travel Partner!

Naturally, we didn’t think it would be more than a summer fling. Nick and I were from different countries, different worlds, different communities, and different backgrounds after all. It would never work longterm.  When I met Nick while we were working in Yosemite, I was infatuated with him. Seems like my years of maintaining unrealistically …

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How to be a Socially Responsible and Sustainable International Traveler

Socially responsible and sustainable travel is imperative to making the world a more equitable, culturally accepting, and better place. A few small actions go a long way. For the past 10 years, I’ve explored and questioned the identity of the tourist through collegiate studies, living and studying abroad in various capacities, literature, film, media, and …

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Why We Moved to Colorado After Three Years of Traveling

Published November 2022 I didn’t want to move to Colorado. It felt so mainstream. Many people who love the outdoors (cough, cough, Californians) seem to pack up their cars with their Patagonia jackets and Burton snowboards, take a virtual tour of an apartment, sign a lease and drive out to Colorado to begin again. Why …