My second day in Phnom Penh started with another tour that was organized by Envoy Hostel. Today we were taking a look at Wat Phnom, and then heading out of the city to visit a village where they produce silk products. Wat Phnom, literally translated as Hill Temple, is, shocking no one, a temple […]
If you made it through my entire first post about the Toul Sleng Genocide Memorial Museum and Killing Fields, I salute you. Thank you for taking the time to read it. That said, my first day in Phnom Penh was not solely focused on the history of the Khmer Rouge. While those four years […]
I promised to blog this trip extra candidly, so I hope y’all are ready for it here… Fair warning. Alright! So, I planned this trip to Cambodia in the loosest of terms. I had originally planned to be here, in Vietnam, and in Laos during my trip in 2015, but my medevac disallowed THAT from […]
In September of 2015, I made the decision to quit my job and book a one-way flight to Cape Town, South Africa, without any real plans. Well, realistically, I had decided in my head years before that I wanted to have a backpacking adventure, but lots of people say things like that to themselves […]
There’s something incredibly euphoric about starting a new trip. Truth be told, I’m actually terrified of flying — probably for the same reason that I hate driving… There’s a lack of control associated with being piloted around in the sky that’s similar to having to trust that everyone else driving a vehicle on the road […]
Around July of this year, I saw the most amazing flight deal — NYC to SIN , return, for $370 USD. Yeah, you read that right. Three Hundred and Seventy US Dollars. Round Trip. New York City to Singapore. Oh, btw, with a stopover in Tokyo. On All Nippon Airways/United Codeshares. The flight was an […]
Alright, I know I had promised I’d post the next installment “tomorrow” — but an abundance of activities and some jet-lag seems to have gotten the better of me. However, I’m writing this next bit from within an awesome luxury bus from Singapore to Malacca, Malaysia, so I suppose it’s all working out well… Once […]
It’s been almost exactly a year since I set out on my open-ended backpacking adventure in Africa and Southeast Asia, and here I am on a plane again… I’m incredibly excited to bring you stories and pictures and adventures, but it strikes me that I never completed my story last time. Originally it was because […]
Don’t get me wrong. I absolutely LOVE traveling, and I adore traveling solo because I can do what I want, when I want it, and it’s challenging and rewarding and wonderful. Sometimes, though, being a single, female traveler and having to deal with everything that comes along with that really, REALLY grinds my gears. I […]
Aka… when your friend lets you take over her office for an entire month, refuses to let you pay for anything, and basically reworks her entire life to hang out with you while you’re visiting her and her family in the random African country that they happen to be stationed in. I can’t even begin […]
