February 2nd, 2018

Embarking on a Year of Travel, Part 3

My travels finally have an end date: I’m currently planning to head home on May 28. If I make it that long, I will have been gone for thirteen months. So with four months to go, I’m in the last third of the trip. 

I’m also in a markedly different phase of the trip. Halfway [Read More]

November 6th, 2017

6 Things I’ve Learned in 6 Months of Travel

I left New York on April 29; this month in Chiang Mai is my seventh on the road. I’m not quite halfway through—currently planning to head back sometime in June probably—but it seems like a good moment to pause and take stock.

I was feeling a bit melancholy in September, thinking about how I don’t feel [Read More]

October 17th, 2017

3 Things to Do and 3 Places to Eat in Hong Kong

First of all, let’s be clear: there are a million things to do and places to eat in Hong Kong. In five nights, especially since they were jetlagged nights followed by 95 degree days, I barely scratched the surface of all the city has to offer. I actually just decided to remedy that and booked [Read More]

August 21st, 2017

Three Nights in Dubrovnik with a Mostar Day Trip

Last week I boarded yet another ferry to travel to Dubrovnik. I’d intended for this to be the last city on my island hop, but since I detoured home and then to Tisno, it was a completely separate trip—so a 7 AM, six hour ferry ride, it was. (Technically the ferry is only supposed to take four and a [Read More]

August 11th, 2017

4 Things I Learned from Bailing on My Croatian Island Hop

Last Saturday, I boarded a catamaran to visit the island of Vis, the first stop on what was supposed to be a 10-day vacation, hopping to Hvar, Korcula, and Dubrovnik. The very next day, I returned home to Split, tired and sweaty and annoyed.

I haven’t made a secret of the fact that Croatia is not [Read More]

July 28th, 2017

Solo German Road Trip: Bremen, Kassel, and Rothenburg ob der Tauber

Last Friday, I set off alone for a German road trip adventure. I had a rough start: I’d scoured the car rental sites looking for an automatic (I know–I’ve tried to learn how to drive a stick…someday, I hope) and thought that I’d found the perfect deal with Sixt. But when I got there, they told [Read More]

June 29th, 2017

Lovely Lugano: A Solo Three-Night Visit

As you might suspect from my blog name, solo trips are necessary food for my soul. I’d been feeling particularly run down after the first six weeks of my global adventure, so I was eager to run to the lakes and have quiet time with my Kindle and some pasta. 

This was my first time [Read More]

June 19th, 2017

A Solo Overnight in Cesky Krumlov

Cesky Krumlov doesn’t sound like the name of a picturesque old town, but excepting the title, it’s adorable. A preserved UNESCO World Heritage Site, it’s similar to Bruges in its bite-sized quaintness.

All the guides say that it’s less crowded in the evening, after the day trippers leave (very true), so I made a night of it [Read More]

March 3rd, 2017

Aren’t You Bored?

On my solo trip to Anguilla, people kept asking if I was bored. Three reasons why the answer is an emphatic no. [Read More]

February 16th, 2017

A Solo Week in Anguilla

An account of my week on the beautiful Caribbean island of Anguilla in February 2017. [Read More]