Lateral Movements

So I’m writing a book. For real. For those of you who are going, “Yeah, yeah, we’ve heard this before,” well, this time, I’m serious. “Yeah, yeah, you’ve said that before” – Shut up, okay?! This is actually a transcript of conversations in my own head, not with any real people, but what you should [...]

It aggravates Jared that I have a phone, but I never take it out of the house. “Look,” I explain. “About four people have my number. Three of them are in the United States. The other one is you.” I still haven’t adjusted to the fact that I’m entering a lifestyle where it’s normal not [...]

I recently wrote a post called “The Hardest Part of Travel,” and now I want to look at a different superlative: The weirdest part of travel. This came up because of the whole North Korea-South Korea will-they-or-won’t-they go to war thing. I’ve had a few people ask what I think about it, and how I [...]

The hardest part about living a life of ongoing travel is not the visa red tape. It is not language barriers, or long flights, or even managing finances. The hardest part, the worst part, the thing I dread… is saying goodbye. People asked me how my parents felt, now that I was leaving again. I [...]

What with our upcoming move to Australia (on Sunday!) and visa preparations, I haven’t been thinking too much about our wedding. When I do think about planning a wedding, I start to stress out – my biggest concern is that I don’t want to get sucked into the ‘wedding machine.’ You may know what I’m [...]

The thing about travel, for me, is this: once I’ve hit the ‘landmarks’ of a destination, I pretty much run out of ideas. So I turn to food and/or drinks for inspiration. Restaurants. Bars. Coffee shops. It’s a trap. A fall-back. I’m in a foreign country, yet I’m checking the time, wondering when it’s socially [...]