first impressions

“Hay un toilette fii el camión?” I found myself thinking. One sentence, three languages: Spanish, French, Arabic, and Spanish again. “Probably not,” was the follow-up thought. And there was English.…

I’m not sure exactly how it started, but somewhere along the line in backpacker culture it became really popular to hate on Cancun. It’s a trend that I have noticed consistently, both…

The feeling of humidity engulfing me immediately gave me a strange sense of peace. Which is kind of weird. I mean, come on. It’s humidity. It makes once-tame hair practically…

“It’s hot.” Probably my first tangible thought, which occurred about as soon as I stepped off the plane onto the jetbridge. Maybe the jacket and scarf were a mistake? I…

Why Dubai? I’ve officially been to Dubai three times, all on layovers. The longest block of time that I have spent in Dubai is eight hours. And you may already…

You know that feeling during travel when basically nothing goes according to plan? That’s pretty much the summary of the start of my trip to Guatemala in the fall of…