I Live in a Dollhouse by Himitsu Photo Source “You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it’s all right.” ~Maya Angelou They say that in times of stress and uncertainty, we tend to gravitate towards what’s comfortably familiar. By “they” I mean of course, my mom,… Read More Homeward (Re)Bound
The following are some of my favorite travel-inspired video clips. I’m sorry they’re so small! I have no idea how to make them bigger… Enjoy. : ) The English Teachers Series This is the first episode in a series that centers around English teachers in Japan. I love the Neville character. He reminds me a… Read More Travel Videos from Around the Web
It’s been interesting to read the comments people have left on that article I wrote for Vagabondish. While the article was entitled ‘What It’s Like to be Female and Foreign in Japan’ (foreign as in non-Japanese), the focus of discussion has strayed from the topic of a western woman’s perspective on dating abroad and zeroed… Read More Are North American Women Really THAT Bad?
From the ‘utterly useless souvenir’ category comes the following: scented clocks, clothing for your wine bottle, leis made out of dog-biscuits and a duster shaped like a hula dancer. I can only imagine the tough time someone must have had trying to come up with ways to market these…Judging from the dust that was collecting… Read More Would You Buy These? The Hawaiian Souvenir Edition
I guess I could always try to make a living as a treasure hunter… I’ve been in Hawaii for six days now and haven’t found a job yet. There aren’t very many available and the ones that are, I’m either unqualified for (Korean egg donor) or I’m not yet desperate enough to apply for (golf… Read More If I Don’t Find a Job in Hawaii…
I don’t write about my dating life on this blog much (or at all, really). When you write about your life on the Internet, you gotta draw the line somewhere and I guess that line for me is discussing details of Relationships Past, Present or Future. I think it’s important to respect people’s privacy, which… Read More Dating When You’re A Broad: It Ain’t Easy!
I’m flying to Hawaii tomorrow. I could be staying there anywhere from a week to the rest of my life. Which course my life takes is entirely contingent on whether or not I find a job within the next six days. If I do, then I’ll stay in Honolulu and if I don’t, I’ll either… Read More When the Possibilities are Endless
Maybe you consider yourself a life-long travel-enthusiast because you have a passport stamp collection and an active Couchsurfing profile. But until you’ve taken your love for the road to the next level and gotten a travel tat, you can’t truly consider yourself a lifer. Because nothing says ‘travel addict’ like scarring a treasure map onto… Read More The 6 Best Travel-Themed Tattoos
Before Nicaragua or Guatemala, before I got a job with an airline or lived in Japan and before this blog existed or I even knew what the word ‘blog’ meant, there was India. And the four months I spent hauling my sweaty self up and down mountains and away from stampeding elephants and spitting camels.… Read More Big News: I Have My Own Column!
I’ve decided not to take that job in Nicaragua. After I’d made a list of all the things that I hoped to accomplish over the next couple of years, I realized that a good 90 percent of them I wouldn’t be able to do living in a village in the mountains of Central America. But… Read More Future Travel Plans: USA