Highs and Lows of 2019 – and What I’m Looking Forward to in 2020.
Epic land journeys, under-the-radar destinations, getting featured in the Washington Post… 2019 was all sorts of awesome and unexpected.
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Highs and Lows of 2018 – And Aspirations for 2019.
In my mind, 2018 was akin to a shinkansen (bullet train) journey in Japan. I immensely enjoyed the ride, but felt like it ended way too soon.
My Journey From the Cubicle to a Nomadic Life – Now in a Book!
This adventure is yours now, this journey is yours.
The Blank Spaces on Our Maps.
I am slowly accepting that no matter how much I travel, there will always be blank spaces on my map.
17 Incredible Travel (and Life) Moments of 2017.
2017 has been a strange year for me as a travel blogger.
An Unfinished Affair: Places I’d Love to go Back to Someday.
These countries make me feel like even though I don’t belong anywhere in particular, I belong everywhere.
Four Years of Travelling Without a Home.
That night, I decided to give up living at a permanent address.
Reflections on Life, Travel and Turning 29.
Even though I unnoticeably flipped my life calendar to 29 a few weeks ago, the little voices within me wouldn’t go unnoticed.
My 15 Most Memorable Moments of 2015.
I fell asleep with local rum and Spanish music in Nicaragua when the calendars flipped to 2015. The year feels like a racy dream – from the Himalayas to the Caucasus, from working on a vineyard in Germany to going vegan in New York, from living with nomads in the Mars-like desert of Jordan to watching a meteor shower in the cracked salty desert of Gujarat. These moments of incredulous beauty and serendipity filled me with an inexplicable love for the road. Behold, my 2015 in a nutshell: The Caribbean spirit: Trinidad & Tobago I knew nothing about the West Indies (well, except cricket) until I actually landed in Trinidad, thanks to an incredibly cheap flight from New York. And it was an instant love affair. Trinidadians have the coolest accent I’ve ever heard. We had pristine white sand beaches all to ourselves, pigged out on Caribbean-Creole-Indian influenced food like “Buss Ab Shut”, and hiked in the mountains of the indigenous herb-growing Paramin community. Giraffes in my backyard: South Africa I was a bit bummed out when my first South Africa trip, planned by South …
Easy Ways to Take Awesome Photos of Yourself When You Travel Solo.
When I travel alone and post an introspective photo of myself gazing into a magnificent horizon beyond, I often get asked if a photographer is shadowing me. The answer is no, but thanks for the compliment!