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...
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...
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...
Wanaka
Wanaka was the last stop before the South Island highlight of Queenstown, and I mostly just expected it to be Queenstown-lite: quieter,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Cambodia
Everyone I spoke to for advice while planning Southeast Asia told me to rush through Cambodia. It was their least favorite of the...
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...