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A 14-year-old’s Life Goals
I recently took a trip to California to surprise my Dad for his 70th birthday. In between spending time with family, I stayed up late a couple of nights just reading previous journals and essays from...
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Five Underrated Beaches You Should Visit in the Philippines
The heat is on! Summer has always been my favorite time of the year, but since moving to the Pacific Northwest, I get the urge to turn on the AC when it hits 80 degrees Farenheit. The last couple of...
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What Hiking Multnomah Falls Taught Me
Just the other day, I met up with two new friends (one of them a friend of a friend I met through Travel Massive in San Francisco) who had just arrived in Portland. They were doing a cross-country trip...
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A Trip Unforeseen: Exploring Oregon
Let’s be honest. There are some things that, when I was young, I never thought I’d do. After multiple torturous road trips with my parents to Klamath Falls, Oregon, just beyond the border of...
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On the Road with your Parents (what could go wrong?)
Things do not always go as planned. This is exponentially true when on the road. Life’s ups and downs are multiplied and magnified exponentially. Possibly for this reason, I tend not to put myself on a...
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Buenos Aires: A Time of Struggle, Awakening, and Transformation
When I moved to Argentina, there was much I had to learn not only about the country and the Latin American region, but also myself. At the romantic, idealistic age of twenty-two, I bought my one-way...
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Tattoos and Travel
The relationship between tattoos and travel has been on my mind for quite sometime. Do people tend to get body art while on vacation because they’re actually embracing the moment, feel out of character...
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Who, Me? The Very Inspiring Blogger Award
Inspiration is one of those intangible things that make this chaotic, and sometimes mundane, life a bit more magical. Whether it comes from art, music, deep conversation, nature, or exposure to...
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Birthday Wishes
Another year of my life has come and gone, filled with hopes, aspirations, daydreams, adventure, and a whole lot of hard work. It’s hard to believe that I’m 33, when I still feel like I’m 27....
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33 Goals, Desires, and Aspirations for My 33rd Year
Do I over-analyze age? Is it, really, just a number? In my opinion, it is not. Through the decades of our lives, we go through a variety of different stages. If we are living as we should be, we...
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Five Places Where I’ve Left My Heart- and Must Return
The more I travel, the more I perceive the world as vast, complex, intriguing, yet somehow closely woven . Over the past 11 years- since I began traveling- I’ve been to 22 countries and easily more...
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The Dangers of a Domestic Life
When I was young, I promised myself I wouldn’t learn to cook because I didn’t want to be a housewife. The majority of my existence, I suppose, has revolved around wanting to be free, wanting to avoid...
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Tuesday Twitter Chat: Mexico
Today’s twitter chat was a blast! After all, it is Tuesday, and that’s the best time to talk about travel, right? I was approached by CheapOair a few weeks ago in regard to being a guest on their...
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One Day in Bangkok: How to Make the Most of Your Time
Bangkok is a complex, sensory city filled with grit, bright lights, crowded streets, a mix of modern and old culture, and no shortage of temptation. As the capital of Thailand and a major economic hub,...
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Nero and Me: A Man and a Dog, Cycling through Wanderlust
I’m very excited to present to you Travel Addict Ruminations, in which I interview various passionate, brave people who dare to travel in eccentric ways. My first guest is Joshua, who has traveled...
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Uber-Rad Transportation
This past weekend, a friend and I went to the Adventure Travel Trade Association‘s AdventureConnect Holiday Party in Seattle. We drove up for Portland, excited to meet and mingle with some new people...
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25 Christmas Gifts Female Travelers Will Love: Part 1
We all have our lists of things we’d love to have. But let’s admit it, everyone is into different things, and some people are more difficult to buy for. If there is an avid female traveler in your...
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2014 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 12,000...
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Travel Addiction: On Coming Down
I walked tirelessly throughout the neighborhood, down streets, forbidden paths, unpaved roads, and highways to the mountain range. Square houses, the same shape and size, surrounded me in muted grays,...
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Losing My Innocence in Spain
It’s about time I lose my innocence. Again. This fantasy of mine has been swelling up, transforming, and growing beyond the limits of my imagination for 17 years now. Many people think that innocence...
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