I hate getting behind on blog updates. As soon as things start to happen, you tell yourself you can't post about them until you've covered the stuff that came before, and then, next thing you know, you've found a job (at a documentary film production company), you put a deposit on an apartment, your boyfriend …
Musings on a Life of Travel
Crisis averted. Welcome to the ups and downs of my life. Now you now what it's really like living the jet-setting life: terrifying. You've been warned. You've tasted the depths of my despair. One day you'll be walking on air, the next day you'll be plummeted into hopelessness so deep you want to disappear under …
The Accidental Local
I have been in Paris for going on three weeks now, and it is amazing how quickly one falls easily into routine. Perhaps this is because I have traveled so much this year, and so establishing a lifestyle for a short period of time has become second nature, but I really didn't expect it this …
Paris Inhospitable
Je recommence! After a wonderful summer in Turkey and all over Europe, and then back in the US for several months of fall to visit friends and family and make some money, I have started what I like to call "The Great Europe Adventure, Round 2." As you all know, I spent my junior year …
The Inevitable
I figured it would happen sometime, given how much I travel, and I've been lucky thus far. I just crossed my fingers and hoped to avoid it as long as possible, and that it wouldn't be too bad or inconvenient. At long last, it happened. Last night on the train from Delhi to Pathankot, I …
Happy Anniversary
Yesterday, Friday (when we went from Thailand to Cambodia), was my 4-week anniversary of arriving in Asia, and, consequently, beginning my travels. Since arriving in Hong Kong on January 16th, I have been in six countries - China/Hong Kong, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, and Cambodia - taken three flights, gone on three train rides over …
Bali Obama!
I know that I owe two days of posts on Hong Kong, but I'm starting to realize that I simply can't record everything. I wish I could, because I have experienced so much in such a short period of time, and it's all so new and overwhelming that I wish I could share it with …
On the Road Again
I know I've been remiss in my posting duties, but I've pretty much been working non-stop since the summer, so I've been cooking and going to movies less than I would like. I'm in the middle of four or five books, too, all of which I can recommend, but none of which I've finished. For …
Taste of Andalucía: Gazpacho
Anyone who has spent a significant amount of time with me in the last year and a half or so will be able to tell you that I am absolutely fascinated by Andalucía. I'd been interested in it for a while, but only peripherally so, but my obsession started when a friend and I spent …
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