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For the past few years, I’ve been in a state of extreme transition—not knowing who I am, where I’m going and what, exactly, it is that I hope to get...

How Lyme Disease turned my entire world upside and why more people need to understand this debilitating disease.

Travel has a way of teaching. In the past year, I’ve come to realize that traveling is what helped me to turn my life around.

If you’ve been following my blog for a while now, you may have noticed some changes in the past year or so: the blog posts haven’t been as frequent, fewer of the photos I post on social media are mine, I’ve gone dark on Snapchat, and there’s not much evidence that I’ve been doing a whole lot of traveling.

I let my 30th birthday slip by pretty quietly. It’s been one hell of a journey thus far, and turning 30 seemed like the last thing I needed to be celebrating. After...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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....

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....

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...

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...

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...

I’ve definitely been bitten by the travel bug. I can’t say for sure when the signs or symptoms occurred, but I do know that for most of my life I’ve been...