“I always have an open heart and, it makes me both a lover and a habitual hurter. It’s the name of the game we travelers play, and I don’t know how to play it any other way, mistakes and all.”Tagged: Open Heart, travel, Travel The World, What It Means To Be A Traveler
“Most people know the feeling of déjà vu. It’s when you can’t quite place it, but you know you’ve felt exactly that way before in another time and another place. There’s an opposite to this feeling called jamais vu. It’s when you go back to the same place but nothing about it is familiar, and you…”Tagged: Jamais vu, déjà vu, travel, Strange Land, New Eyes
“Sometimes, something magical happens when you travel: you remember exactly why you’re doing it, and you’re so happy and present in that moment. Sometimes it’s the people you meet; sometimes it’s the places you’re at.”Tagged: travel, Why We Travel, The Highs Of Travel
“When the travel does eventually end, as it will for all of us, what will we be left with? This question terrifies me every time I try to confront it.”Tagged: travel
“I’ll wear this place like a thumbprint on my heart forever. It has changed me for the better.”Tagged: travel, Locations We Love, Home Is This Place
“I’m kind of shocked at how little I really need to be happy. Is this what traveling does to people? I think so.”Tagged: Happiness, travel
“Out of fear, I held onto what was easy and familiar for years even though it was at odds with what my soul longed to do – I wanted to be free.”Tagged: travel, Fear, Freedom, Female Solo Travel
“You see, the lovely thing about you is the person who you are right here, without the pressures of real life and the stress of where the next paycheck will come from.”Tagged: Love, travel, road, trip, Life
“We skirt the issue of tomorrow and with every passing day, when each sunset lights up the sky, we pretend that the shelf life this has doesn’t exist.”Tagged: travel, Love, Life, road, Journey
“If we end it right in the throes of infatuation, remembering it only for the nights entangled in romance and lust, before there could be any complications or hurt pride, then we’ll both be safe.”Tagged: Love, travel, Life, Free Spirit, vulnerability
“I might know that you love Metallica thanks to Spotify but I may never know your Sunday morning routine.”Tagged: Love, travel, Life, Free Spirit, vulnerability
“America, we need more cities organized like those in Europe. Sorry, BP, you (and your profits) can suck an egg.”Tagged: travel, Friendship, tips, Advice, inspiriation
“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