It’s a bitter sweet moment returning home from a long trip. You return to those somewhat regular things that, hopefully, you enjoy in your daily life. But it’s also a bit of a bummer (or a large one) knowing that your adventure has ended and the crazy stories you’ve acquired are halted, for now of[…]
With my first semester of graduate school in the books, I’m just going to put this out there…It was just as bad as I imagined and maybe more. My first semester this past fall contained a significantly less amount of work to be completed. In undergrad I had an array of different types[…]
For the third section of planning for my first backpacking trip, I learned a good lesson. Ride with me. So many of the backpacker blogs I’ve read over the last year and a half say “don’t make a hard itinerary, just go”. Yeah yeah yeah I said, well I’ll only plan for a specific event[…]
In planning large trips out of the country for the first time, it’s natural for you to want to invite close friends and family. You want people you know to share the fun with, to be frustrated with, to communicate with in your own language, and be able to reminisce on the trip with later. […]
As the wanderlust trainer, there are two key things needed, traveling and training. This will be the first piece of my preparation to Mexico, which is my first self-planned trip out of the United States. After reading this, maybe you have some ideas on how to better than such a trip. Well how did the[…]
The wanderlust trainer. The rolling stone, new term I’ve embraced. The professional wanderer, a name that I will forever keep, at least until I’m done wandering. A man sewn from instability and now aims to make that into a positive attribute. Welcome to my blog site tracking my travels on the road I subjectively call,[…]