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Tourist to Traveler
I made my way up to main house attached to my modest yet perfectly comfortable apartment, where my host lived with her family. The door was open in preparation for my arrival and there was a child in...
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Porto, You Get Me
I’m writing you to catch you up on places I’ve been. Finally, after waiting four hours in the arrivals hall of Frankfurt International Airport for a bus to take me to Frankfurt Hahn Airport (a...
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Asking for Help
I don’t like asking for things. I like paving my own way, I like laying my own bricks, I like the satisfaction of knowing that I have, absolutely, made something from nothing all by my own hands. I’m a...
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No Filter: Reflections on the Weirdest Two Weeks of My Life
Someone wise once said, “Always keep a journal. That way, you’ll have something interesting to read on the train.” His name is carved into my brain. It’s not simply a schoolgirl’s nostalgia. It’s years...
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TL;DR TRAVEL: SPLIT, CROATIA
This destination along the Dalmatian Coast is popular mainly with European tourists looking to make a sunny getaway. Despite its location along the Adriatic Sea, there’s a rich history here in Split,...
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TL;DR TRAVEL: PORTO, PORTUGAL
Here’s the thing: I had never really heard of this city until about a little over a month ago, as I searched Ryanair’s flight schedules for someplace new and exciting. Oftentime passed up in the minds...
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Welcome Back: Part I
I thought twice as I left my Herschel pack in the opening foyer of the Airbnb out of which I was checking myself, paranoid that something would happen to the precious cargo inside. And yet, at the same...
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Welcome Back: Part II
(Continued from Part I.) I don’t really know where the time went. I was willing time to speed up, to take me to 06:00 when I could just drop off my case full of wine and relax in the luxury of the...
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Getaway to the Bay
And suddenly, I was standing in the subtle breeze of the San Franciscan morning, snug in the arms of California once again. The air around me seemed filtered, of a higher quality somehow; and though I...
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Miss’shitty
I was speeding down I-10 East in a 2014 Ford Fusion as black as the night around me and blasting Duran Duran. I felt at peace, in my element; a big fish in a small pond. The woman working at Enterprise...
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