The whiff of challah bread or bite into roasted corn can transport you back to journeys you had long ago. Nothing like food can stir a deep hunger within us to trek thousands of miles to find the perfect spring roll.  It not only motivates our travels but helps us understand where we are and…

Wander Now comes the time that most travelers anticipate the most: the wandering. The musing through streets for hours, going up hidden staircases, stumbling into gardens behind bookstores, and having random conversations with locals. All of the things we find outside of the guide book make our trip. This surprises warm us more because we…

Together Travel is the truest test of a relationship. It bonds unlikely people together and tests old relationships. It puts it to the test and finds the weak spots in a relationship like a raccoon sitting on a chicken coop, trying to find the weak spots.  But it also bonds you in ways that you…

ALONE Out of all the states that we will travel to, traveling alone usually brings up the most trepidation in people. To many, that idea seems as foreign as the places they want to travel to. Why would you do anything alone? Why not just wait for someone? But that underlying fear might be because…

Stage Two LOST One of the largest plights of traveling is not knowing exactly where you are. It doesn’t matter how many websites you have on a travel board on Pinterest or how long you have stared at Google Maps, once you land it is easy to take a wrong turn.  Your internal GPS glitches…

Stage 1: Identity The Episode  Our identities shift when we go abroad. When we leave the familiar surroundings of home, we start to see ourselves from a new light and angle of the sun. What will going abroad show us about ourselves that we couldn’t see and help us take control of our own identities? …

Before We Leave: Anxiety The Episode This mini episode is the prologue to the second season of Strangers Abroad.  We all experience moments of anxiety during or around the planning of our trip .  The planning.  The packing.  The waiting.  And then the day arrives when our flight is about to take off. Carry us…

In our previous posts, we have been going down a rabbit hole on tribalism ( it doesn’t ever go away, but it does get quieter). This once upon a time necessary survival instinct that unfortunately hasn’t gone extinct in our socially-complex modern society. It gets us to act in really unnecessary ways, bond with others…

Ok, so in my previous post, I also gave you a gross list of all of the atrocities we have done because of our tribal instincts ( plz read and actually weap before moving forward). However, THIS post will be a ray of sunshine, hopefully blinding you so severely you won’t be able to see…

I took the bus to school every day until I was 17. I would wait outside, in the cold, in the rain, or warm welcoming sun everyday. I grew up in a small town with few children and even fewer serpentine bus routes through the backwoods of upstate New York. While my bus was often…