Back in San Francisco, sitting at my coffee table, I can’t help but feel like I blinked and this long-awaited trip to Southeast Asia has gone by without a trace. That’s the funny thing about being in other countries: when you’re in the thick of it, I mean the real grungy parts where you can’t eat without running to the bathroom and you’ve slept in so many hostel bunk beds that you’ve become accustomed to falling asleep to your neighbor’s snores,…
One of the most common questions I get asked from friends and family is what to do on Maui, and I must admit that I LOVE talking about it. I had…
Anyone that has done some sort of long-term travel will know that the journey usually resembles something of a rollercoaster. Not one of those fancy, super-loopy, safe rollercoasters, either. Rather, one…
The Camino de Santiago, or the Way of St. James, is something that hundreds of thousands of people participate in every year. Legend has it that the remains of St. James…
When I first arrived in New Zealand, I had no real plans as far as transportation goes. I kind of figured it would work its way out and I would discover…
One day, after reading article upon article about Hawaii, I decided that I needed to hop on the earliest plane and get myself to the tiny group of islands. I was…