Some of the best parts about traveling the world? Doing awesome things like touching elephants. This is me, looking amazed the first time I fed an elephant. In case you were wondering, baby elephants rolling around in mud are exactly as cute...

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Some of the best parts about traveling the world? Doing awesome things like touching elephants. This is me, looking amazed the first time I fed an elephant. In case you were wondering, baby elephants rolling around in mud are exactly as cute...
Last week, I drank butter tea with an exiled Bhutanese political leader. Also, we watched Cartoon Network with his grandson and ate the Bhutanese equivalent of jalapeno poppers. I was prepared to hate butter tea (as anyone who's read Three...
Would you believe that this 31 New Things goal nearly gave me palpitions? Yes. How silly is that? As I walked into The Lexington, I was literally compiling a list of solo accomplishments in my head to bouy my confidence ("Moved to New Zealand...
I would like to preface this post by telling you that if my cat Putin was a human, he would be Niles Crane. He would probably have a variety of imagined ailments, he'd be allergic to peanuts, he'd be married to shrew of a woman and he'd definitely...
Despite all of my pop culture references here on Yes and Yes, there are huge, gaping holes in my knowledge of movies that were released before 1996. I spent the majority of my childhood building forts and writing overly involved stories about...
Let me be honest here, friends. This new thing? I did it, like, five months ago. It was a second date with a gentleman who, I'm afraid, didn't make the cut for a third date. After he told me that he was bad with money and got stoned on the daily,...
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