Lateral Movements

Jared and I bought a Volkswagen Golf last month. To my great relief, it’s an automatic. Embarrassingly, I can’t drive a manual. There was an unfortunate incident when I was 17 involving me, my dad’s truck and my Grandma’s barn, and ever since then, I’ve been wary of manual vehicles. Jared’s mom is teaching me, [...]

Fall started on March 1st in Australia – no messing around with that solstice business here. I’m re-training myself to talk about the seasons according to the Southern hemisphere, but the truth is, July will always represent summer, and December is winter. Period. But autumn and spring, I have an easier time flip-flopping. Autumn in [...]

On Saturday night, I realized that I have a problem. When I meet someone for the first time, I am always convinced that they ‘look like someone’. I figure out who it is, and inevitably I tell them. This rarely goes well. When we were in Indy, I met a friend of a friend at [...]

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 [...]

Sometimes, life moves at an astonishing speed. This is never truer than it is when I come back to the US, and this time around I’ve learned it all over again. What? Didn’t realize I was in the US? I know. I’m waaaay behind on the real-time blogging. I kind of thought that these three [...]