Stories from a Female Traveler: Meet Vanessa
If you ever meet a jaw-droppingly gorgeous and quiet Venezualian lady who is a seemingly shy German Au Pair, don’t be fooled. She will be a crazy, fun-loving, and full of more hilarious belly laughs…
recent stories |
How We Can Afford to Live in our Camper Full-Time
Let’s face it, living comfortably can be expensive. Do you ever find yourself watching videos uploaded by minimalists on YouTube and thinking “How on Earth do they live with so little? Surely it’s all for…
Home Behind Us
Home Behind Us Packing and leaving. Isn’t that the dream? I talk about how to pack for travel all the time, don’t I? This is different though. This is a big pack-up. This is our…
Don’t Wake the Snoring Traveler
Poke. Poke. Poke. “Go away.” my brain screamed. “I hate you.” But it didn’t go away. Poke. Poke. “Psst!” My brain woke up, my eyes jumped open quickly. They attempted to fix themselves on the figure standing over my bunk in our 12-bed hostel in the 2 a.m. darkness. It was some older woman. She looked like the girl from “The Ring”. It was pretty terrifying to be awoken by her and I had to remember I was in a hostel and not in a cabin in the woods somewhere. Words weren’t coming to my brain yet. I just stared at this bizarre woman, this…
Adventures in a Foreign Toilet, The Christmas Market
“Oh, no!” I thought to myself. “This is not happening!” I tried again. And again. And again. Six different attempts, yet nothing was changing. My husband would have said to me, “Nessie, the definition of…
Why I Ditched the Rolling Suitcase for a Travel Backpack
Packing for a trip abroad can be a stressful ordeal, I know! Especially when you are trying to cram everything you could possibly need for the next month into a 20-pound bag. Why put more…