How I Conquered the Great Wall Marathon
As I slowly dragged one foot in front of the other, I could feel my calf muscles strain and tighten. I was running on relatively...
Previewing My Trip to China
Photo courtesy of barnyz via Flickr.At this time next week, I will be in Hong Kong!It’s been a few months since I’ve left the country...
Training for the Great Wall Marathon
Four weeks from today I will embark on what will be perhaps my greatest physical challenge: running the Great Wall Marathon in China.Sure, I’ve completed...
Five Years of Travel Blogging…Now What?
Sometime in February, I passed the five-year anniversary of this blog. I thought of writing something about it then, but never got around to it,...
My Second Month in D.C.
Wow, has it already been two months since I moved to Washington, D.C.?I generally feel like I have settled in well and gotten into a...
A Weekend in Portland, Oregon
While my new home of Washington, D.C. was digging out of a massive snowstorm a few weeks ago, I was on the other side of...
One Month in a New City
Friday marked one month since I moved from Chicago to Washington, D.C. – my first time living outside of the Midwest in my entire life....
How I Finally Landed My Dream Job
It will be five years ago in August that I quit my job as a fundraiser for a Chicago law school to spend 13 months...
Lalibela: The Trek I Should’ve Skipped
One foot in front of the other, I told myself. Just put one foot in front of the other.My legs felt like lead as I...
A Game Drive in Awash National Park
“Katie, look! A dik-dik!”“Where?”“Over there.”“Where?”“There.”“I don’t see it, where?”“There, running away into the woods.”“Oh.”And thus went what seemed like the first hour of my “game...