I’ve tried to write this post a few times, a bit unsure of where to start or even where to go. How do you sum up a year of living in a new city, country, and continent in one post? Especially when that year was also a year of a global pandemic that virtually shut
NETHERLANDS
An Amsterdam Update
I’ve now been living in Amsterdam for just about two months. It was a strange thing to move to a new country just before a global pandemic was announced and everything shut down. I had one whole day to see/do what I could before prior to the distancing measures put in place. And I’m also
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NETHERLANDS
Meganotravels is Moving.. to Amsterdam!
You read that right. I’ve decided to pack up my life in the United States and move it across the pond to Amsterdam. And it’s happening in less than 10 days from now!
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INDIA
Awkward Spa Moments Abroad
One of my favorite parts of traveling to cheaper countries is the option of spa services at a much lower rate than you’d find in most of the Westernized world. In the United States, you’ll pay at least $50 for a simple one-hour massage. In Indonesia, that same $50 buys you several treatments over the
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PAKISTAN
A Love Lost; A Love Gained
When I first thought about writing this story, I envisioned it’d be the kind with the happy ending. You know the one I’m talking about: where the guy and girl end up together happily ever after. But, life happens. Picture it: Austin, 2013. I was six months out of a four-year relationship and heartbroken that
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INDIA
Teaching India’s Children
When I traveled to India recently, the magnitude of the poverty I witnessed was both astonishing and overwhelming. I was constantly slapped in the face with it and left there feeling heartbroken and helpless. I wanted nothing more than to rescue all those children and bring them home with me to nourish their lives in
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PERSONAL
On Travel and the Possibility for Love
I just finished reading Lost Girls, a tale of three women who quit their jobs to set off on a round-the-world trip for a year, and much like What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding, parts of it struck so close to home that I felt that I had written them myself. In one
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MOROCCO
Riding in Moroccan Trains with Old Men
“There is nothing like a train journey for reflection, and the passage from Casablanca to Marrakech is one of the most inspiring I know. Movement has a magical effect on the mind. It stimulates the eyes, distracts them, allowing real thought to take hold. I stared out the window at a landscape changing by
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PERSONAL
Building in Some Downtime
Probably my biggest regret in past travels was never giving myself some time to relax. Nobody really tells you how exhausting long-term and fast travel can be–you think you can keep going on this adrenaline rush, and maybe you can for a little while, but then you just sort of bottom out. And it’s miserable.