Outwalking Sadness: A December Afternoon in Budapest
I’ve been in Budapest for just over a week now, working too much, seeing too little, with sadness plaguing me. Yesterday, I escaped and explored. Sadness is an inexplicable beast. It worms [...]
Then I Was in Portugal: My Grand Misadventure
It’s the third morning of my Portugal leg of my adventure. Up the hill, someone is burning waste from land-clearing arundo donax, an invasive reed that’s a cross between corn and bamboo, which [...]
Three Days Left, Four To Go: Time to Stop and Write
There’s a time when I know I just need to stop and write. It’s when I’ve updated Instagram and Twitter and Facebook and Twitter and Instagram and Facebook and… Yeah, okay, there’s a blog post [...]
My Countdown Begins:42 & Zagreb
Ask Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy author Douglas Adams and he’d tell you 42 is the “Answer to The Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything.” It’s also the answer to “When does [...]
The State of Unknowing
I can’t tell you when I decided I would try to travel the world for five years. I really don’t know when that shift happened. I think at one point I was hoping I’d live abroad for a while. Maybe [...]