Archive for 'Philosophy'
Here Are Your New Year’s Resolutions
Posted on 03. Jan, 2012 by Steph.
I’ve never been big on New Year’s Resolutions. Big, grand gestures that are usually completely abandoned by mid-February. Sure we’d all like to lose weight, exercise more and stop biting our nails but ain’t gonna happen b/c of some magic decree. Still, I can kind of see the point of using the start of the [...]
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Why I Can’t Travel Like I Used To
Posted on 08. Dec, 2011 by Steph.
A couple weeks ago I wrote a pretty popular article about the benefits of slow travel: how moving less actually allows you to see things in more depth and detail. I then proceeded to completely ignore my own advice and blow through the rest of Colombia. 8 destinations in 20 days, a whirlwind effort to [...]
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The Closest I’ve Been to France
Posted on 17. Nov, 2011 by Steph.
So this is a little embarrassing to admit, seeing as I’m a self styled travel expert and all, but here it is: I’ve never been to Paris. Or anywhere in France actually. I’ve been to Spain, Italy, Holland, I’ve even spent a year living just across the channel in England, but I somehow never made [...]
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When Trusting Authority Almost Killed Me
Posted on 15. Nov, 2011 by Steph.
When I was 19 I had appendicitis. Only nobody believed me. It was my first semester in college, my first time living away from home. My solution to homesickness was to keep myself crazy busy with classwork, activities and volunteering. I was busy but it felt good. It was on my way back to school [...]
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Move Less, See More
Posted on 06. Nov, 2011 by Steph.
A lot of things about travel are counter-intuitive: when you travel alone you meet more people, when you spend less money you experience more and the more hidden, dingy and local a restaurant looks, the better the food is guaranteed to be. The hardest travel paradox for most people to grasp though is that the [...]
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Why Your Twenties are Terrible/Awesome
Posted on 25. Oct, 2011 by Steph.
Or: Gah I’m turning 27 on Wednesday! When I was twenty-one years old my mother told me that her twenties were the hardest decade of her life. This kind of puzzled me at the time. After all- I’d just gotten the ability to drink legally; my life was going great! I was getting ready to [...]
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How to Boost Your Travel Karma
Posted on 04. Oct, 2011 by Steph.
This is not as hippy-dippy as it sounds, I swear. I’m not a terribly religious person, but there is one life philosophy I do ascribe to, and that is the idea of karma. I believe that what you put out into the universe comes back to you; sometimes in strange and unexpected ways. I guess [...]
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Tourism vs. Voyeurism
Posted on 20. Sep, 2011 by Guest Poster.
This is a subject I’ve struggled with in the past and would be interested to hear other people’s viewpoints in the comments. There is something to be said for checking “must see” items off your life list – we all travel to some extent to “see” things when we go places. But what happens when [...]
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Experiencing the World Through a Female Lens
Posted on 11. Sep, 2011 by Steph.
The Frugal Traveler, a great column in the NYT, had an interesting article last week focusing on what it’s like to travel as a woman alone. It’s a good article, but the author Seth Kugel, seems amazed by the fact that, yes, women often have a different travel experience than men. That’s funny, because as [...]
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