For six years I have had Guatemala at the top of my travel list. For six years I have made plans to go to Guatemala. And for six years these plans have come undone. Once It was to change plans to an easier country to visit with friends. Once it was to go visit friends…
It has been 4 years since I have been backpacking. Or budget traveling, or flashpacking, or long traveling, or whatever made up terminology you prefer. Covid was of course the big cause of this, but there were also a hundred minor emergencies that sucked money from the travel fund, as well as significant time spent…
We arrived in Bangkok in the middle of the night and began parsing how exactly to get to our hostel. Bangkok is rife with scams, or so the internet would have you believe, so despite our fatigue we were wary of taking a taxi from the airport. We determined to take a train into town,…
It takes a long time before the reality of long term travel sets in. Usually weeks unfortunately for those suffering under the tyranny of standard American vacation time. Sometimes it is a slow process of letting the stress and responsibility of the real world roll off as you realize they no longer hold sway over…
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