Your Dream Might Be Outside This Zone

While traveling over the past two months, I have had a lot of time to think about “work.” Does a job have to be work? Should it be? I’ve lived my life up until this point under the idea that you should love what you spend your time and energy doing. There must be some [...]

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Surely We’re Bright Enough To Outshine The Stars

There is a scene in the fabulous collection of shorts, Paris Je T’Aime, with a very stereotypical overweight American tourist clad in fanny pack, sneakers and her Lonely Planet Paris guide. As amazing as all of the shorts in this collection are, this one haunts me the most. Her terrible French, her lonely but highly [...]

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So a Bomb Just Hit My Next Destination

When traveling, you learn you must be fluid and cope with the unexpected. An unexpected I could not have anticipated needing to cope with are the two explosions that just went off from a massive car bomb severely damaging a government building in Oslo, Norway, where I am traveling to in a week. There are [...]

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Adventures in Belgrade’s Nikola Tesla Airport

Note: Written 14 July 2011 I am the happiest girl ever right now. I just purchased a bottle of Jack Daniel’s at Duty Free. Now I just need to find some Schwepps ginger ale to ensure continued delight. Belgrade’s airport, Nikola Tesla Airport, has two levels of security. Once as you are used to seeing [...]

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Bring On Paris

As soon as Erik got through security, I immediately regretted not staying in the amazingly comfortable hotel bed and coming to the airport on my own, closer to my own flight time. My 12:40pm flight isn’t leaving for another three hours and I didn’t get my postcards mailed, rushed through breakfast and skipped my much-needed [...]

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Arriving in Belgrade and Resetting While Traveling

After traveling from Novi Sad to Belgrade yesterday, I was lazy the rest of the day to recoup from the festival and rest my ankle. Now awake to grab breakfast at the hotel before we head out to check out the Nikola Tesla Museum and the rest of Belgrade! I discovered this awesome little piece [...]

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Down and Out In Paris and London and Serbia

Note: Written 6 July 2011 By the time I will have posted this, I will be in Serbia. After a mad dash on a rolled ankle, a little line cutting and a broken combination of English and French, I boarded a flight to Belgrade this morning. My final destination today is Novi Sad, about an [...]

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Barcelona To London

Note: Written 22 June 2011 I didn’t sleep the best last night then woke up at 9:00 today to breakfast, stamps for my postcards, packing my sack, writing postcards, broiling the chicken I’ve been marinating for two days, and eventually leaving for the airport London-bound. I’m currently in Paris having prosecco and caprese sandwich for [...]

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