Finding home: A return (again)

Finding home: A return (again)

Author’s note: My previous posts give this post a bit of context – take a look! I spent a lot of the last year terrified that the next time I came to Kenya would somehow be my last. I worried that once I got a job, I wouldn’t make enough money for international travel, let [...]

Finding home: Settling In

Finding home: Settling In

I’m not gonna lie – when I first got to Ghana, I felt like a fish out of water. I think a bit of travel hubris had me expecting I’d be able to take my 23 countries and counting and jump right in. Instead, I found myself staying in an abandoned-feeling hostel on the outer [...]

Partaking of Philadelphia

Sometimes I forget, when I think about traveling, that small trips- local trips, even- are just as much adventures as the long, drawn-out voyages to distant locales. As I’ve been writing these articles, I’ve been racking my brains (what remains of them at the end of the semester, anyway) to think of travel stories that [...]