Gili Trawangan, Indonesia In the past three days I’ve developed a whopper of a cold, complete with a cough and incessantly runny nose. I’m experiencing…
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Copan Ruinas, Honduras And just like that, five hours on a bus, two stamps of the passport, and three dollars for a Honduran entry fee later,…
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Antigua, Guatemala “Chocolaaaaaate! Chocolaaaaaate!” Pablo, our wonderfully enthusiastic guide, sang loudly as he whipped our traditional hot chocolate into a beautiful foam. We each had…
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Quebec City, Canada “Six years? You’ve been travelling and living abroad for six years?” I get that question a lot, followed closely by, “How old are…
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In a way, travel relationships, whether they last for days or for years, start off just like any other relationship. Your eyes meet across a bar full of young and sun-tanned backpackers, you smile at each other over the noise of a street festival, you complain together about the heat or the slow Internet or how long you’ve been waiting for the bus. He’s from South Africa or Sweden, Turkey or Australia, but it doesn’t matter; he’s not from where you’re from.
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Antigua, Guatemala I’ve spent the last week living completely differently than I have in years – I’m focused on school, and on studying. Surrounding me now on this table in this little…