I am not a people person. As a result, I’ve never considered myself the best candidate for couch surfing. This stems more from the fact that I am painfully shy than it does from my being a mean or Scrooge-like person.
I have always loved to travel but I have never had the opportunity to travel and explore the way I wanted to. It’s not until we throw ourselves into the unknown that we know who we are.
I’ve never been any good at following others’ advice. When it comes to big decisions I’ve always relied on following which option would make me happiest and not the one that’s ‘best’ for me.
Its the time of year when we take stock of our lives and re-evaluate where we stand in our journey through this great earth. Maybe it is the cold weather or the shorter days or maybe it is just the January blues that make people decide to start each year with a fresh new set [...]
Knowing who you are, what you can achieve, and finding self-reliance is something no one can take from you. Once you realize it, it will always be there to keep you upright when the hurricanes of life try to blow you over. The place of knowledge is irrelevant; it could be a mountain, a stretch of highway, or your own living room. Mine just happened to be a tropical hideaway.
As a busy urbanite, you don’t always realise the stress your body is under. I had been in a job I had disliked for a while. I was sick at least once a month so I felt I owed myself a holiday.
I gazed over at my Italian host mother, Rebecca. Over the course of the last four months we had become family.During my first few days in Florence, I told Rebecca how nervous I was to start my internship at a Florence museum
Dave and I often discuss this idea. Who “up there” decides who will be born in luxury and who will be born in poverty. When we were in Cambodia, we had a hard time accepting ourselves and felt guilty for being who we are. The world is not a fair place and travel opens our eyes to it on a very real and deep level.
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