Free from the confining walls of the drug study facility and alone in my car, I took the opportunity to shriek at the top of my lungs in pure exhilaration at my new found freedom. And then I bee-lined it to Starbucks for that Pumpkin Spice latte I’d been dreaming of for nearly three weeks. […]
“Shut up and eat your butter.” That’s the little running joke among those of us confined for seventeen days in the clinical trial study I’m doing to pay off part of the outstanding balance on my RTW trip. What I thought would be a pretty easy study is actually a bit distressing. They are force-feeding […]
Picture window on Lake Superior Family photo (the baby is my second cousin) It seems almost like a dream. Sitting on mom’s couch where I sat before it all began, I can almost believe that it never happened, that my experiences of the past six months are just a figment of my imagination. It seems […]
Me and my purple Dutch bike Fleur and me outside her and Luiz’s flat I’ve flown around the world. Literally. It’s hard to believe. So far this year… 45,631 miles flown. 14 countries. 22 stops. 40 cities I stayed overnight in. 55 different beds. Longest stay in one place: 13 days in Curitiba, Brazil (besides […]
Market Square in Brugge On the train to Belgium, I noticed that you can choose to sit facing the direction of travel, or looking where the train has just been. This got me thinking: am I a forward- or backward-looking person? Do I spend the majority of my time thinking about the past or looking […]
I’m not one of those people that is on the cutting edge of what’s new and hot in the world. I was never one of the popular kids that everyone wanted to be like. I kinda liked it that way. Who wants all that pressure anyway?! I tend to catch on to things after other […]
I can get excited to get on a train to go to another city for the day or to get on an airplane for a new stamp in the passport- that’s easy. But I also still get excited for the little things- like a cup of coffee in the morning or a bike ride across […]