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Udaipur
Udaipur is India's "City of Lakes" and was my personal favorite stop on my trip around the country. We took the overnight train from...
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Colorado Road Trip
It seemed that out of nowhere a few years back, everyone in Ohio all of a sudden decided they wanted to up and move to Colorado (totally...
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Lake Tekapo-Christchurch-Kaikoura
The rest of the South Island post-Queenstown was just kind of a rush up the east coast. I didn’t have a lot of interest in the...
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Wanaka
Wanaka was the last stop before the South Island highlight of Queenstown, and I mostly just expected it to be Queenstown-lite: quieter,...
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Taupo
Taupo is not quite as fun-filled or interesting as Rotorua, but it's a peaceful lakeside town that is probably a popular getaway for...
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Amsterdam
Amsterdam. When I was 21, it might as well have been Narnia. It was that city teenagers spoke of as some kind of mythical utopia. While I...
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Scottish Highlands
You likely imagine bagpipes, kilts, green hills, and the Loch Ness monster when you think of the Scottish Highlands, and you are exactly...
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Dalat
The biggest rush job I have ever done traveling was sadly Vietnam, but Dalat especially. Since we were going to be away for two months, I...
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Cambodia
Everyone I spoke to for advice while planning Southeast Asia told me to rush through Cambodia. It was their least favorite of the...
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Myanmar
Imagine a poor, developing country with stray cats and dogs wandering the streets, kids running up to you and shaking bowls or trying to...