Category: Travel Writing
A Life Worth Living in Arequipa
Back to back! I have another guest post from the incredible travel blog A World to Travel. This time we take you below the equator to a hidden gem of a city at the tip of Peru on the border of Bolivia and Chile: Arequipa. I awoke in the desert around Arequipa after being in…
Best Beer Gardens in Prague
Hey strangers! I just had my first feature guest post on the wonderful and wanderlusty travel blog Getting Stamped. I wrote about my first love: Prague. Prague planted the seed of travel for me. I had always wanted to travel but didn’t want to go somewhere that all other young college students were going. I…
Be a Cow
This week I have officially started recording and interviewing people for the second season of my podcast! I’m elated but overwhelmed. I feel like there is always too much to do and that I don’t have enough hands or hours to accomplish everything I want to get done. I feel like I’m shoveling a super…
The End of a Journey
passionpassport It’s such a weird feeling to wake up one morning and to not have to work on the project that you have been pouring your time, energy, and mind into for the better part of three years. And my rat brain was immediately like, “ ON TO SEASON TWO.” I am always in the…
It’s Not the Mountains We Conquer but Ourselves
Huacachina, Peru I met Doron at the beginning of his journey and in my last days of traveling. Although we were at the opposite ends of travel, we still shared one striking commonality: home. Where he had been walking around just hours earlier, was a place I hadn’t stood on in months and while…
Hiking Machu Picchu
E23.5 The Lost City & The Last Soul Machu Picchu is a mountainous citadel hidden deep in the Andes. A citadel is a “little city” with a fortified area situated as it’s core. Anthropologists believe that it was originally a place where the ruler of the Incas would take vacations but was repurposed once the…
Escaping Hollywood
E22- Be Like Water Matt and I met under extreme circumstances one evening when we were trapped inside of the chocolate shop due to aggressive protests in the streets of Arequipa, Peru. We were stuck in the cafe for a few hours, and being the only Americans, it was an opportunity for Matt and me to…
Educating Peruvian Youth
E22-Teach the Heart to Inspire the Mind Cindy was my Spanish tutor whom I met through Thomas ( from the previous episode) who worked with him through HOOP- the non-for-profit that provides lower-income students with opportunities for higher learning. Cindy’s primary job was to teach English to children living in lower socioeconomic areas and provide…