Inspiration


15 Delicious Traditional Chinese Foods You’ve Got to Try
Curious to know what real, traditional Chinese food looks like?
This isn’t that imitation Chinese food you get from the 24-hour Chinese restaurants around the corner from your apartment. I lived and...
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I Was on My Way to China, Got Stuck in Colombia, and Ended Up in Israel
Nope, nothing ever works out the way it’s supposed to.
By the time last December had rolled around, I was facing a major life decision. I had been offered my dream job,...
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The Importance of Slowing Down Your Life
I awoke in a hammock to the drawn out lashings of the ocean against the craggy coastline of the Caribbean sea. The sky was a peculiar shade of navy, but...
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Turning Down My Dream Job to Travel the World
I blinked myself out of a hazy snooze and squinted at my vibrating phone. It was the call I had been waiting for, but secretly dreading.
I had applied for the...
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Why You Should Travel and Go Completely Broke
There were times when I was forced to travel with no money. Through these experiences, and through the hardship of learning how to get by and how to make something from nothing, I discovered a silver lining.

Are You Doing Something Worth Dying For?
Everybody talks about living a life worth living. And while I wholeheartedly agree with that sentiment, it lacks a certain depth.
What is a life worth living? What fuels it? A...
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I Went to Vang Vieng and Didn’t Go Tubing: Fed Up with Tourists and the Takeover of Tourism
After 31 days in Southeast Asia, I was fed up.
It had been 11 months since my move to Greater Asia, the majority of which had been spent living like a...
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A Lesson on Mexican Street Food: How It’s Really Done in Mexico
Mexican food is not what you think.
In the same way that America has butchered their interpretation of traditional Chinese food, so too have they debauched the art of Mexican cuisine.
Many North...
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On Re-Entry and Reverse Culture Shock: Returning to the USA After 3.5 Years Abroad
It's 7am and the sun is rising. There's a heavenly glow spread upon the rock cliffs that overlook the Gulf of Thailand. I scaled that jagged scarp last night just...
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In the Dominican Republic: The First Time I Ever Experienced Another Culture
I was about 17 years old. I was slightly awkward, quite chubby and, of course, still trying to find my feet in a wide environment of social complexities. My understanding...
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Why Bangkok Isn’t Good for Anything Other Than Drinking and Having Sex
What’s the point, anyway? If you want to go on holiday and drink, I won’t tell you off. But if you want to travel, why even bother going to a...
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The Horrors of Chinese Food: Exploring the Wangfujing Food Street in Beijing
I know. Everybody loves to crack jokes about how the Chinese will eat just about anything, including Scruffy and Po, your Bichon Frise and your British Shorthair.
It's true, I've seen...
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Traveling the World Bettered My Career: The Story of a Traveling Cocktail Bartender
I don't often discuss my "other" job on this website. For all intents and purposes of this website, I'm a travel blogger. But, of course, we are not always as...
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Why Learning Foreign Languages is So Important: My Epiphany in Southwestern China
My 40 liter rucksack was packed and I was setting out to explore the southwestern Chinese province of Yunnan for ten days. I was an English speaking white boy in...
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Living Like a Local: What A Chinese City Really Looks Like
As I step outside, my throat fills with phlegm. The thick smog pierces my lungs and lingers at eye level. At first I thought all this spitting was culturally customary....
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One Night in Singapore: An Encounter with the Ladyboys of Southeast Asia
I had been searching for the cheapest flight and, by golly, I had found it. I was in Brisbane, Australia at the time and was researching flights to Hong Kong....
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Scenes from an Overnight Chinese Sleeper Train
I sit on the small fold out seats by the window. I can barely fit. The train departs with a jolt and babies begin crying. I look to my neighbors...
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Wandering the Streets of China: An Introspection. Is This Culture Shock?
I don’t even know where I am anymore. Sometimes my location on this great planet of ours doesn’t fully register until that Google Maps pin drops on my precise whereabouts....
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After Traveling with a Credit Card, I’m Officially Screwed. Thanks, Mom.
My grandiloquent claims that “I’d be fine!” did not soothe my mother’s concern. Her words were cautious and careful, and she maintained a steady, warning tone.
“It’s all good, Ma!” I’d...
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Two Years on the Road: A Summation
As I write this article, I’m sitting in the room I grew up in. I spent the first fourteen years of my life in this rickety old house before I...
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Does Too Much Travel Make You Jaded?
One can only become jaded through experiencing life. But isn’t that what traveling is about? We seek, with a thirst for excitement and the rawness of new encounters.
By this very...
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