In my first 48 hours in Southeast Asia, I: -Fell into an open grate, with one full leg going all the way in, resulting in two gnarly bruises. -Watched a cockroach run across the restaurant floor under our feet while we ate Indian food. -Marveled at the geckos...
You come up with all sorts of conversation topics when you’re trying to get to know nearly 60 new people. Especially when you’ll be traveling with them for a year. Anything that could strike a commonality, you try it, hoping to find a friend within...
This month, I ventured to Tokyo, Kyoto and Kinosaki, ate all of the ramen and pancakes, and fell in love with this wonderfully weird country....
How lucky I am to have such deer friends....
One of the greatest lessons I’ve learned while on Remote Year is about family. While, of course, no one will ever replace my parents, it’s incredible how much you can feel at home, on the other side of the world. ⛩ Many of my most treasured memories...
Health that allows me to travel the world, on little sleep and much booze, fueled by the laugher of newfound, instantly treasured friends - and the endless wonder I witness through their eyes as we experience every new city together. Google translate, for helping me navigate...
After a night of sampling Persian food, singing karaoke and dancing at a club named after Spain, a few Yugies made our way to Lake Biwa, the largest in Japan. Hungover, freezing and yet full of laughter and our contagious positivity, what a way to spend...
“A word is dead, when it’s said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.” -Emily Dickinson Loved watching this Japanese man write and scribble symbols in his journal, furiously writing and then flipping a page to edit. He smiled a few times....
As every nomad understands, there’s a difference between traveling and vacationing. Exploring a handful of Eastern European cities in a few weeks, and hopping train to cab, cab to train, can be both a fulfilling and exhausting trek. But lounging by the aqua blue of the ocean,...
A few weeks before I left for Remote Year, I went to a 'travel lovers' networking event in NYC. On our name tags, we wrote our next destination, and I was so excited to talk about RY (and maybe meet an alum). Many people were...