Category: adventures

They trudge by you on the path, carrying packs much larger than your meager day pack, often wearing nothing more than flip flops or worn...

Crossing Russia on the Trans Siberian Railway is on many traveler’s bucket lists. I flew to Vladivostok and spent a month taking the train all...

At the top of Gokyo Ri (with Mount Everest in the background)As my departure date for Nepal drew near, I found that most people assumed...

Mosque of Suleyman PashaI was exhausted by the time I arrived in Cairo. First, an overnight flight from Chicago to Paris. Then, a long layover...

Two and a half years ago I wrote about my thoughts on Egypt as I watched the Egyptian people take to the streets to protest...

September 2001. I boarded my first trans-Atlantic flight at the age of 25 to embark on a whirlwind 23 day tour of Europe. This was...

 You may have noticed things have been a little quiet around here lately. For the time since I started blogging regularly at the beginning of my...

One of many marshrutkas that wreaked havoc on my neck and back.I’ve written a lot about the emotional ups and downs I experienced while traveling...

When I visited Egypt in 2008, one of my favorite experiences was visiting the Tombs of Nobles in Aswan, Egypt. Located on the far side...

Back in February, I wrote about an opportunity that sort of fell in my lap – the chance to work with Eventbrite as one of...