Five flights, twelve time zones, thirty-seven hours’ transit, four friends, and a night out

Catching up with old friends in the south of England on the way to New Zealand

A recap of my experience trail-guiding in Guatemala and brief history of the nonprofit school it helped support

A crash-course in Spanish and first impressions of Xela, my home for the next several months

Arrival in Guatemala and meeting my homestay family

Shifting gears in preparation for becoming a trail-guide in Guatemala

A strange evening with a male stripper and suitcase full of euros, a motorcyle ride down the coast with my homestay brother, and a visit to an acquaintance’s countryside chateau

How I ended up sleeping on the dorm room floor of strangers without a common language for weeks and loving it

A meditation on how wasabi (and Japan) changed my life

An introduction to the blog, myself, and an odd fact about northern Italy’s school curriculum

[Predates blog] An op-ed I self-published on having cancer at 26 and the fear of financial ruin that nearly overshadowed death

[Predates blog] An historical fiction short story I wrote for Bellum Magazine’s Fall 2017 issue about my grandmother’s emigration from South Africa

[Predates blog] My firsthand account of Washington D.C. during the weekend of Donald Trump’s inauguration