Tag: Travel
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Portugal – The Idea of Saudade
This trip marks my fourth time in Lisbon, a beautiful city that I cannot help but always want to come back to. It is also my first time taking a true solo trip. Hard to believe, isn’t it? After 37 countries, most of which have been part of my adult life, I’ve never really traveled…
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Lisbon, As Life Changes
February 11, 2022: At 6:12 P.M. on this Friday night, I can feel the breeze moving my hair, as I work from the terrace of the Lisbon apartment that my best friend and I have used as a home base this week. In front of me, just down below, sits the Praça de Figueira, while…
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Mexico, Again, But Different
May 11, 2022: I’m sitting here in Tulum, Mexico on the huge couch in the living room of our 2-story AirBnB (located in the heart of Aldea Zamá) writing a piece about my reflections on study abroad and lessons I’ve learned along the way. It’s not lost on me that this comes at I time…
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The Latest Journey, and 23
This past year has been the best of my life. I began true adulthood by diving into a full-time position just weeks after finishing my degree. Next came a move across the country in my station wagon, with only belongings that would fit, and my brother, in a quasi-Great American Road Trip sort of way.…
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Another November- Thankful in Tulum
Fall, Years Ago Fall used to be my least favourite time of year. It always seemed as if time was slipping away in ways I couldn’t quite keep up with. As the daylight drained away, it just so happened that events in my own life lined up to create a season that felt sad and…
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California Dreaming
When I was in eighth grade, we had to do a project about what school we wanted to go to in the future and I immediately thought of California. In ninth grade, I bought a UCLA sweatshirt that felt like a great callback to that project. During my senior year, we spent 10 days between…
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Iceland- Fire and Ice
Watching bright red magma begin to bubble and flow over the basin of barely cooled, yet already black and hardened, rock was a moment that reminded me of what it means to be alive. As the lava gushed upward, arcing through the air so gracefully and so deadly, the rock beneath it pulsed like the…
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Time
One year ago today I was leaving my first year of college behind. One year ago today I found out that I got no scholarships or aid from my study abroad program. One year ago today I thought I would have to last-minute enroll at my local community college because it was too late to…
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Ireland- Rediscovery & Family Reunions
It’s funny, that Ireland wound up to be the first place I spent any real time abroad after my semester running around the world. Ireland was the first country I flew to on my own, my first (albeit four hours of) solo travel, and the place that I first realized how lucky I am to…
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Post SAS Depression- Coming ‘Back’
What happens after living on a ship for four months? What happens after seeing 13 countries in a row? What about after you leave your friends-turned-family and the people you saw every. single. day. ? Coming back signifies a sort of regression- ‘back’ in to the way that things have always been or ‘back’ in…
