Whoo, happy Easter to all the Christian readers I have! Sorry, this is like a day late for it to be “Week 1,” but I’ve been crazy busy with online work and getting things ready before I leave for Chile! I haven’t done a ton towards preparing for Korea this week beyond turning in my…
[dropcap]Y[/dropcap]ou know, it’s interesting how this blog has changed over the nearly two years I’ve had it. When I first started, I was so determined to keep it uber professional and more like a travel site rather than a blog. I didn’t quite realize that there are plenty of professional sites who already do this and have…
[dropcap]A[/dropcap]hh, Valentine’s Day. It’s actually one of my favorite holidays, believe it or not. While you’d think 24 years of being completely single would turn me completely off on romantic love and this “Hallmark holiday,” it has not. In fact, each year I actively fight against becoming bitter, buying a bunch of chocolate, and crying…
[dropcap]Y[/dropcap]ou could say Verushka has always been infatuated with seeing the world. Raised in Durban, South Africa, her parents took her everywhere locally, passing on their own wanderlust to her. She even recalls that her first school holiday was a trip to Swaziland. Of course, it makes sense that she’d plan for a life related…
Funny enough, I had a gift guide scheduled to go out today. It’ll still go out, but I think it’s a little inappropriate to be shoveling out gift suggestions for female travelers when there’s so much somberness in the air right now. Sometimes writing comes easily to me, and sometimes it doesn’t. Usually I let…
I originally started writing this over a year and a half ago when I said goodbye to the first big group of people leaving Namwon. I was still pretty new, and I was imagining what it would like to say goodbye to a town I called home for two or more years. A few weeks…