“I have learned that if I want a real opinion on something, I have to ask my German friends, because they will tell it to me straight.”Tagged: Germany, Straight Shooting Germans
“It’s a pretty American thing to say, ‘We should totally hang out again sometime,’ without meaning it one iota.”Tagged: Americans, Americans and Friendship, Idiosyncrasies of Americans
“I don’t see ‘settling down’ as the end goal for my life. Maybe I’ll get married and have children and maybe I won’t.”Tagged: Womanhood, Fearless, female, travel, Life
“These days I spend more time in countries that are statically safer by a long-shot than the USA, so by leaving home I am actually decreasing the chances of something sinister happening.”Tagged: Womanhood, Fearless, female, travel, Life
“Each time I walk into a hostel I make five new friends, each time a local takes interest in why I’m alone, I get invited to a family dinner or a cool local ceremony.”Tagged: Womanhood, Fearless, female, travel, Life
“Maybe those around you expressed concern or tried to talk you out of it, because the idea of a girl traveling on her own still, unfortunately, draws some skepticism.”Tagged: Womanhood, Fearless, female, travel, Life
“I think I’m better off spending my time in a relationship with myself, out exploring the world, becoming more in tune with the person who I will most definitely never break up with – me.”Tagged: Womanhood, Single, travel, Free Spirit, Success
“Why can’t being single and free be as valuable and respected as the role of a mother or wife?”Tagged: Womanhood, Single, travel, Free Spirit, Success
“When I join a local ceremony, hitchhike across a country, or learn how to ski, do I really need a counterpart there to legitimize that, to legitimize me?”Tagged: Womanhood, Single, travel, Free Spirit, Success
“I am still a successful woman even if I’m not married.”Tagged: Womanhood, Single, travel, Free Spirit, Success
“The point of hitchhiking is not just to get a free ride, but rather because of the guarantee that it will be an experience completely out of the unknown.”Tagged: hitchhiking, travel, Womanhood, Experiences, Life
“Anyone who travels also understands that this world is impossibly big while being surprisingly small and interconnected all at the same time. We’re humbled by what we’ve seen, and we know full-well that we’re not the biggest fish in the sea.”Tagged: travel, Wanderlust, Success, Life, Lifestyle
“We know it’s rude to point the bottom of your feet at someone in Thailand, we understand how to shake someone’s hand in Southern Africa, and we grasp that it’s important to say, ‘Bonjour’ when entering a store in France.”Tagged: travel, Wanderlust, Success, Life, Lifestyle
“Corporations negotiate with millions and travelers do so with dollars and cents – volume is really the only difference.”Tagged: travel, Wanderlust, Success, Life, Lifestyle
“The place to find the perfect out-of-the-box thinkers, problem solvers, and movers and shakers is the arrivals hall at an international airport.”Tagged: travel, Wanderlust, Success, Life, Lifestyle
“One of the biggest regrets of the dying is not being true to and taking more time for themselves.”Tagged: travel, self, inspiration, Wanderlust, World
“When you know a lot about the world, you can positively and intelligently contribute to conversations about art, politics, and leisure.”Tagged: travel, self, inspiration, Wanderlust, World
“Traveling shows us that we have more similarities with people from other cultures than differences, that the world isn’t that scary after all, and that people are fundamentally good.”Tagged: travel, self, inspiration, Wanderlust, World
“Each local experience has the potential to open your world even further, allowing space for new belief systems and ways of sharing meals, spirituality, and methods of daily life that were previously mysteries.”Tagged: Experience, travel, Life, local, Love