The author reflects on their transformative travel experience, visiting three countries in twelve days, but acknowledges a shift in priorities due to health concerns and personal commitments. Cherishing memories of past adventures, they now value slower, intentional travel, prioritizing family and friends over exploration, while embracing life in Colorado and new responsibilities.
We met traveling in Costa Rica. Because I am a brain tumor survivor, there are certain things I have to look out for when traveling now, that previously may have never occurred to me. Cut back to Costa Rica, I’ve arrived to a group of strangers who would be biking around Lake Arenal and adventuring …
My travel blog was originally meant to chronicle my adventurous escapades around the world. It followed me, wallock, with a dwindling budget, intrepid attitude and unwavering spirit of exploration and desire to connect with others in diverse locales and share stories. I did not imagine I would ever be writing tips for traveling with an …
It only felt right to write a book and publish it on the one year anniversary of my brain surgery. It felt write to understand my brain tumor and brain surgery my way. As it is my brain and my story after all! July 6, 2024, I’ll be publishing my memoir, Chasing a Feeling: Charting …
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 …
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 …
November 2022 This October, I took the opportunity to travel to Peru on my yearly travel credit from my employer. I work as a Marketing Writer for an active travel company. As soon as the opportunity to go abroad was presented to me, I browsed our trips and shortly after, booked plane tickets to Peru! …
Move to a place I’ve never seen before? Yup. Travel by myself? Oh yeah. Head to Ecuador at 16 years old without knowing anyone? That’s me! But making friends in a new city? That’s another story. And as it turns out, I am not the only one thinking about how to make friends in a …
After having met a number of people with international relationships, like myself and Nick, it has been interesting to reflect on the ways we’ve had to shape-shift in different places that we’ve visited or lived together. Meeting Up in Unfamiliar Locales in an International Relationship Edinburgh: Lost and Together in a Foreign City Seeking Normality …
I have been based in New Zealand for two years. Now I am transitioning back to the US. I thought I would share some of my funniest culture shock moments. Culture shock. I know things are different abroad and people become accustomed to a certain way of life when living somewhere. I would like to …