I’ve been doing this travel thing for a pretty long time and I’ve been on almost every trip with my very long-term boyfriend, Aaron. Over the years we’ve traveled to roughly 25 countries together. We went on two unforgettable month-long backpacking trips across Cuba in 2005 and 2007 (we even saw Raul Castro speak!), we quit…
I’ve always been intrigued by the idea of visiting Tokyo because there always seemed to be so many wonderfully weird things about the city. Just so you know, when I say weird, I mean it in a good way. I love cities with a personality. And Tokyo has one in spades. Here are just a…
One thing I love about doing visa runs is that they kind of force me to travel, even if I’m financially at my lowest or just plain squeezed for time. And I was a little bit of both last month. But my Chinese visa mandates that I leave the country every 60 days. So a…
UPDATE: As of June 2015, Indonesia allows 30 countries to enter the country for 30 days for free. That means no more VOA for most countries (sorry all of you Australians, you’re not on the list! To find out more information check out this article. There is still a little bit of confusion about whether…
I’m only slightly embarrassed to admit that my 24 hours in Singapore were mainly spent eating. But who knew there were so many amazing and cheap vegetarian Indian restaurants in Singapore? I honestly thought I would spend the entirety of my visit peering hungrily through restaurant windows. From what I’d heard, Singapore is so expensive…
As I waited for my plane to take me to Penang it struck me that I hadn’t boarded an international flight alone in exactly 10 years. It had been a full decade since that trip to Europe and even then I was meeting up with a friend. Some of my favorite blogs are all about…