Travel Personalities
Travellogged: This Week’s Top Pics and Posts for Travel Addicts
New York, 1960′s – These photos make me wish I’d been alive back then. These ‘hanging tents‘ are crazy! Would you be able to sleep soundly on a piece of thin nylon nailed to the side of a cliff? What about sleeping while dangling from a tree? My question is: What do you do if … Continue reading
Personality Types and Blogging: How Personality May Affect Your Writing
Side-stepping away from travel for a half-a-second, this post is about my second favorite activity: writing. I stumbled upon this girl’s blog a while back and found it fascinating. In it, she outlines the strengths and weaknesses of various personality types as they relate to people’s ability to write. If you don’t know your … Continue reading
How Do You Define ‘Home’ When You Live Out of a Suitcase?
Finish this sentence: Home is… For me that answer isn’t an easy one. I was born and raised in Hawaii, finished high school and college in New York and have lived in 10 different cities in five different countries since then. I currently live in Las Vegas. While a part of each of those places … Continue reading
Are You a Perpetual Optimist? You May have Brain Damage
I’ve been accused of being optimistic to the point of being delusional and until reading an article in the Huffington Post, I assumed that all of the play-it-safers telling me not to backpack through Guatemala alone or vacation in Columbia were the ones not in touch with reality. They’re exaggerating, I thought. They’re wussies. They’re only cautioning … Continue reading
Raising Risk-Takers
While reading on the beach this morning (I’m back in California for the weekend) I spotted a two-year-old girl running towards the shoreline. “Bethany!” screamed what I could only assume was the girl’s mother. “Nooo!” She grabbed Bethany’s arm just as the little girl was about to plant a sneakered foot into the salt water. “That’s dangerous!” … Continue reading
