Nov 27, 2013
Goodness sakes. When I set out on this 7+ month adventure I wondered how fast it would go by. Time flies when I’m at home — weeks swell into months and amazingly, expand into years. But having never been away from home quite this long with just a backpack, I was...
Sep 27, 2013
… i’ve lost count of all the amazing things i’ve seen in the last 9 days. cheesy title for a post? sure. but it’s true so i went with it. in a lot of ways i don’t even know where to start trying to relay everything. or even just a slice of...
Sep 22, 2013
well, i have landed in another country. i have slept off most of my jet lag. i have walked at least 10 miles in just over 3 days. and i have had only one beer because it is so expensive here! but i’m in Auckland, New Zealand! it is pretty amazing. and by...
Aug 30, 2013
my mind has been a million places this last year [hell, these last 2 years] and more often than not i can’t settle it down to spit out a post. i know that most of this scatterbrained feeling can be attributed to not knowing how best to sum up where i’m at...
Mar 2, 2013
I’ve seen many blog posts that start with “oh boy, has it been that long?” or “wow, time flies!” Heck, I’m guilty of both of those!! I really do love writing and am starting to hope more and more that maybe one day I can do something with all of this. But I’m...
Sep 22, 2012
noun (mur-tem-ber-fest) A festival thrown in honor of a great dude named Murray, celebrated not in his chosen month of October (which would have been called Murtoberfest) but in September, the month (and day) on which he was to be married. cue Edward...