10 Worst Travel Moments of 2017
What’s that? 2017 ended a week ago? I don’t know about you, but I spent December freaking out over my thesis while continuously not doing
Category: stories
Llamas and Lost Words – 5 Stories from South America
I have tons of pictures of llamas and alpacas. Like, TONS. (If you’ve been around my Instagram, you’ve surely noticed.) I feel kinda bad that
Is It Worth It?
There is a questions that keeps pestering me as I travel on. Is it worth it? as I am blowing my paycheck on a flight
Confessions of a Global Tinderella: Notes on Dating in Brazil
He told me he had been married. Eight years with the same girl, three years under a legal licence. He wasn’t the first Brazilian my age who I’d met who’d already dipped their toes in the marital waters. This commonness of serious commitment is a strange contrast to the more prevalent Brazilian stereotype of casual dating and meaningless sex.
Chasing the Devil in Potosí, Bolivia
The Dutch girl I met in Sucre shuddered when she remembered the mining tour she’d taken back in Potosí. ‘It’s definitely interesting’, she said, ‘but it won’t be fun.’ Seeing that the mines are at the altitude of 4,400 metres and underground, I can easily understand what might inspire such a statement. But here I am – ready to descend into the depths of the Earth with minimal idea of what’s to come.