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Haters Gonna Hate
The internet has been making me cranky lately. I’ve been sensing this growing resentment towards travelers and it’s making my skin itch. There’s the snotty comments scattered across the interwebs, there’s some weird infighting drama going on in the travel blogosphere (which I’m not going to touch), and then there’s the Eat Pray Love backlash. [...]
Continue reading...Notes From the Home Front: Me versus My Calendar
13 July 2010
I swear, my inspirational calendar is mocking me. I’m not even sure where it came from—maybe the printer my company uses gave them out. It’s big and glossy so I hung it up in my gray cubicle. All year it has sat up there, giving me smug messages: Focus: People with goals succeed because they [...]
Continue reading...Twenty-Something Travel Goes Round-The-World! An FAQ
28 June 2010
I had a moment of clarity last week when I finally bit the bullet and bought my ticket to Tokyo. It was exciting but kind of nerve wracking: my big trip just went from theoretical to very, very real. I’m definitely, seriously, honest-to-god leaving the country on September 22nd and I don’t know when I’m [...]
Continue reading...Learning to Love Being Alone
1 June 2010
(Over the next couple of weeks I’m recounting ways that travel has helped me to learn about myself. For references check out my first article: How Travel makes us Smarter, Wiser and All-Around More Awesome) Here’s a story I don’t think I’ve ever written about before: Studying abroad in London was the first time I’d [...]
Continue reading...How Travel makes us Smarter, Wiser and All-Around More Awesome
25 May 2010
I like to travel for a lot of reasons; it can be really fun, it makes me feel more alive and I love meeting new people and exploring new places. There’s also another, deeper motivation I feel to propel myself around the world: I feel like it makes me better. The constant flow of new [...]
Continue reading...We’re All Travelers Here
21 March 2010
Warning: this post is ranty… Last week I wrote a post about how much I love the online travel community. And I really do, but every once in awhile (actually it seems to be happening quite frequently lately) I come across a certain kind of blog post that really rubs me the wrong way. These [...]
Continue reading...Do the Thing that Scares You
23 February 2010
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about why so few people actually make their travel dreams reality. Anyone who is a frequent traveler knows the common refrain from others of “I wish I could do that!” To which I always answer that you can. For some reason people don’t seem to believe this. A lot [...]
Continue reading...When Getting Lost is a Good Thing
19 January 2010
We have maps. We have GPSs. We have 5-year plans. We have everything laid out ahead of us to specifically prevent ourselves from losing our way. That’s just smart living; getting lost is scary. It’s frustrating. It’s an encounter with the unknown, the unforeseen and the unpredictable. It’s these exact same characteristics that make getting [...]
Continue reading...What It’s a Wonderful Life Can Teach Us About Travel
27 December 2009
One of the side effects of writing this blog is that I’m constantly in the traveler mindset. I notice a lot of things that I’ve never picked up on before. I must have seen It’s a Wonderful Life a thousand times, but it never resonated with me quite the way as it did this past [...]
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- Friday Postcard: Hoboken, New Jersey
- Train Ride Through the Tea Mountains
- What to Do While You’re Waiting to Travel
- What I Didn’t Know I Knew
- Friday Postcard: Budapest, Hungary
- August Update and Links
- Haters Gonna Hate
- Lists, Lists, Lists
- Friday Postcard: Tanzania
- Your One Stop Post for Accommodation on a Shoe String
- Notes from the Homefront: How much is Too Much (Planning)? Plus! My Itinerary
- Haters Gonna Hate
- We're All Travelers Here
- What is your Biggest Travel Disappointment?
- State of the Blog: Twenty-Something Travel Turns One!
- Twenty-Something Travel Goes Round-The-World! An FAQ
- Second Chances: Where Would you Like to Revisit?
- One is Company: Choosing to Travel Solo
- Who ARE These Travel Bloggers Anyways? (TBEX 2010)
- Good Tourist/Bad Tourist: A Local’s Perspective
- Diane Letulle: Thanks for the kind words about New Jersey - we can use all the good PR we can get, thanks to Jersey Shore & Housewives. In NJ, I love that I hav...
- Scene By Laurie: I love it!!! It's not often Hoboken gets a shout out!!!! I live here and don't even do it much on scenebylaurie he he he... I guess it takes fresh eye...
- Michael: I'm glad I was a good tour guide :)...
- Christian: I'm sure you know this by now but, as of a couple of months ago, Burma is visa on arrival now, so good luck with that. Awesome itinerary Steph, apa...
- Laurence: Camden is a definite must. I love the London parks too, great for getting away from the city whilst in the city. Borough Market is a good one, I'd adv...
- Jen: I think it's AWESOME that you love traveling. I think some people don't understand how amazing it is to see the world and experiences new cultures. I ...
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24 August 2010
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