Friends, I have been traveling for three and a half months now. Three and a half months of sleeping on friends' couches, in refugee camps and on the floors of NGO offices. The majority of my showers have come via bucket and I'd ask that you don't...
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32 New Things: Touch An Elephant
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...
Notes From The Road: Sex Worker Surprise
I really, really never thought I'd spend a Monday night this way:We walk into the side entrance of a swanky, gold-marqueed hotel and towards a back room that promises 'turkish bath massage.' "How do farang know that this is sex massage not...
Notes From The Road: Hello, Hill Tribes!
A few weeks ago my lovely sociologist friends Daniel and Amanda were sweet enough to take me with them on one of their visits to an Akha hilltribe village, deep in the mountains of northern Thailand. I ate my weight in sticky rice, befriended all...
Notes From The Road: Life In A Refugee Camp
Friends, I would be lying if I told you that I was 100% confident about spending time at a refugee camp. When I decided to visit the Timai refugee camp in eastern Nepal, I was haunted by visions of starving, sad-faced kiddos and a crowd chasing...
Notes From The Road: The Wild West of Asia
One of my (admittedly weird) fears about traveling so much is that I'm slowly but surely becoming jaded and under-awed by the corners of the world. I fear that I'm going to get all "Temple, Sh-memple. Monkeys - who cares? Polygamy? I've seen it."...
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