a travel blog
Happy (belated) Thanksgiving! Despite my best efforts to try and keep the blog as real-time as possible since Amsterdam, we are actually not in Paris anymore … we’ve been home for three weeks! While at times a bit weird to not be on the road anymore, it has been such a joy and comfort to be home with family and […]
Soon after leaving Cambodia, we got to day 200! We were lucky to celebrate this milestone with two of my best friends, Margaret and Jessica, in the middle of Vietnam’s beautiful Halong Bay. It was the perfect day to mark this travel milestone: We woke up on a cruise ship to massive karsts looming outside our window, spent the day kayaking […]
A big milestone we hit while in Hong Kong was our 100-day mark on the road! It’s hard to believe we’ve made it this far, and almost every day when I wake up I can’t believe that it’s all happening. We’ve traveled to six different countries on three continents, visited over 20 cities, met up with dozens of family members and […]
As the clock struck midnight to herald in the New Year, I officially became unemployed. My name was removed from the staff list, my email was disconnected, and my insurance ran out. (We now have coverage from the exchanges—thanks, Obama!) Leaving my job was one of the hardest and weirdest things so far related to the trip. Perhaps unsurprisingly, a lot […]
My first memory of traveling is tears. I was five years old and on a plane to the Philippines, and I was sobbing uncontrollably (and also vomiting from motion-sickness). My parents and I were on our way to visit my mom’s family for a month in early 1995, and I was sad to be leaving my friends and school and […]
Why do a trip like this? To live more simply. To mix up my daily routine and push myself out of my comfort zone. To take advantage of the time and place in our life. To wonder at and learn about the world around us.
When I was first thinking about the name of this travel blog, I recalled a train trip with Vikram earlier this year. As we started crossing over a body of water, I asked Vikram: “Do you know what this is?” “No. I don’t know where we are.” “Oh, I can just look it up on Google maps.” “…I prefer to […]