Top Five Things to Avoid When Traveling Abroad
Running late at the airport. Losing your luggage. Getting something stolen. Missing a meeting or having someone not show up to see you when they’re supposed to. These are all issues that arise on a fairly regular basis anytime you embark on a great voyage. An inherent risk of traveling is coping with unexpected problems [...]
Read MoreTaking the Risk of Wanting to Stay
In Colombia, a popular saying goes— “The only risk in visiting Colombia is wanting to stay!” Supposedly this saying originates just miles from my Barranquillan home, from the colonial city of Cartagena, Colombia. So, a few weeks after marking our sixth month anniversary in Colombia, some fellow Peace Corps volunteers and I decided to take [...]
Read MoreIsland Time
Travelling goes hand in hand with making discoveries and learning something new but this time I may have hit the jackpot – I have learnt how to become totally relaxed. The location for the source of this new found skill is Gili Trawangan, a tiny paradise island in Indonesia and a short hop skip and jump from [...]
Read MoreSay ‘och aye’ to bonny Edinburgh!
Bonny Scotland: Home to men in kilts playing bagpipes, men in kilts tossing cabers around like twigs, and more men in kilts washing platefuls of haggis down with whiskey, for breakfast! Should you find yourself in Scotland at some point in your travels, you may indeed spot a kilted man, or even a bevy of [...]
Read MoreBackpackers in Shock: Bunkbed Sex Romp!
There are countless backpacker hostels the length and breadth of Australia, and when you’re short of a dollar or two, they can provide you with the welcome relief of a bed for the night and a roof over your tired and travel-weary head. However, as you will undoubtedly expect or may even know yourself, it [...]
Read MoreHoly Juice Batman!
Everybody’s trying to be environmentally conscious and healthy these days, right? Talking about things like the green movement (just saw an awesome performance touching on that: Marc Bamuthi Joseph/The Living Word Project with Theaster Gates red, black and GREEN: a blues), CSAs (community supported agriculture), and repurposing. If in this green movement repurposing is more efficient [...]
Read MoreNo husband, no meat and a side of humor, please.
“Your husband, where is he?” asked the petite woman with jet black coiffed hair sitting quietly behind me, four hours into our eight hour journey from Phomn Penh to Ho Chi Minh City on a non-air-conditioned bus. I looked up from the book I was reading, turned and faced her, “No husband,” I responded. She [...]
Read MoreRevelations in Paradise
The conditions are good. Sun is shining. Clouds float effortlessly over the greenest, most beautiful mountains I’ve ever seen. Waves beat rhythmically as they roll onto shore. Breeze blows through all the lush greenery and everything slow dances to the song of the ocean. Call it perfect, these conditions. I ought to produce a lovely [...]
Read MoreNo Time to Forget Women in South Sudan
“If you educate a man, you educate an individual. If you educate a woman, you educate a family.” -African Proverb South Sudan is no stranger to war. Since its successful referendum for succession from Sudan in 2011, South Sudan has been in and out of the international press. Recently, more fighting has erupted around ownership [...]
Read MoreA train or two or three: a spring break odyssey
Sometimes it’s not about where you travel, but who you travel with. For spring break this past week, I decided to stick around close to Bologna (a combination of financial restraint and lack of planning). Although most of the students in my program seized the opportunity to travel outside of Italy, a few friends also [...]
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