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Why You Shouldn’t Start a Travel Blog (and what to do if you aren’t going to...
Travel blogging isn’t a life path anyone really expects to take. No one goes to school thinking, “I’m going to be a travel blogger when I grow up!” Although they should. It’s a pretty bad-ass...
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Five Travel Lessons Jordan Taught Me
I’ve only written one article about Jordan so far, and using the word ‘written’ doesn’t even do it justice. It was a photo essay. And that’s because it was the easiest. Now this isn’t because I’m lazy,...
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What it Was Really Like to Celebrate Carnival in Brazil
Ah, Carnival. Before my trip to Brazil I really had no idea what to expect. Not in the slightest. In fact, I thought what you might probably be thinking: Carnival = one crazy week in Rio. Elaborate...
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Today I Embark On My Dream Job (+ a giveaway to celebrate)!
I can’t believe it’s time! As you read this I’ll have just arrived in Northern California to start a month long training to be a tour leader with PEAK Adventure Travel (the brand that manages companies...
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My Favorite Cities Around the World
There is something almost inexplicable that happens when you step foot in one of your favorite cities. You feel different. You almost act different. You feel how you’re probably supposed to feel all...
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Dear 9-5ers, Quit Telling me to Stop Complaining
Idle hands are the devil’s playthings. I don’t think I ever had any reason to care about those words before. I figured it was just an explanation for why there are so many meth labs in tiny random...
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What I Learned from 4 Months of Road Tripping the U.S.
20,000 miles and 25 states. That’s the area I covered this summer leading tours for AmeriCan Adventures. To put that into perspective, that’s equal to driving 83% of the Earth’s circumference. And many...
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Nicaragua favorites: Highlights over 5 weeks of travel
Perfectly symmetrical volcanoes. Thick jungle dotted with tropical flowers and nighttime fireflies. Bright colonial cities. Caribbean islands with clear waters and tall palms trees. I never expected...
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Organized Tour vs Solo Travel: Which is Right for You?
There is a large divide in the travel community: those who travel on a tours and those who don’t. Although both people are essentially doing the same thing– venturing abroad and experiencing new...
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Six Lies Often Told by Travel Bloggers, and the real truth
The internet is overflowing with clickbait and meaningless content just to fill the virtual pages of blogs and online magazines. While I usually don’t pay too much attention to these articles, one...
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What 5 Months On the Road Looks Like: My Second Season Tour Leading & What’s New
Packing up my belongings to start my second season on the road as an adventure tour leader this March feels like it was years ago. Within that time period, I’ve lead eight trips, crossed the country...
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Favorites from 30,000 miles around the U.S. and Canada
When I packed up my belongings at the end of March to begin my second season as a tour leader I wasn’t imagining I’d work such a long season. Evidence of that would come in June, when I dropped off all...
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What it’s like to Live a Life Constantly on the Move
I posted a photo on Instagram while in Sedona announcing that my “home base” (aka where my parents live and where I keep my stuff) has changed. Instead of going to North County San Diego in between...
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How to Have Happier & More Stress-Free Travels in 2017
For me, the new year marks almost six years of mostly constant travel. It was around this time in 2011 that I had just graduated from college and was preparing for my big move to Korea. Since then, my...
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So, you want to go to Cuba? Here’s my advice.
Cuba Cuba Cuba Cuba. It’s everywhere right now. Instagram. Facebook. Travel programs. With all the hype going around I get asked almost weekly about how I visited and how much money I spent while...
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Why I Stepped Back from Blogging & Social Media
A few years ago, after teaching English abroad and before my current job, my main professional focus was travel blogging and social media. When not physically traveling, it took up the majority of my...
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Six Months in the Big Easy: What it’s like to move to New Orleans
After three years of almost full-time travel, I was ready for a break. Between spending half of the year traveling for work, and the other half for pleasure, I started salivating over the thought of a...
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