Spirit Animals
Back in November, I visited Chiang Mai, a city in the mountains of northern Thailand. Chiang Mai seems to be the darling of Asia – everyone loves it. And I did too. It’s such an easy-going place: authentic but tourist friendly, plenty to do both inside and outside the city, surrounded by a moat. It’s pretty […]
The Lost Generations
I’ve spent a significant amount of the last months pushing out of my comfort zone, which has proven to be both empowering and rewarding. I am regularly taking inventory within my existing feelings of discomfort, trying to distinguish what is ignorance and what are acceptable personal limits. Honestly, it’s never really been clear. I try to have […]
History Catches Up
It’s hard to forget where you came from. And sometimes it’s scary to also. In my case, where I’m from, what I’ve done, and the life I lived up until leaving home in August – it’s all been pretty great. I’m incredibly lucky. However, I have one of those personalities that causes me to constantly […]
The Truthteller
My mother has always called me “the truthteller of the family.” Being known for your honesty seems like a compliment, but the nickname came about just as equally do to my habit of making brutally honest comments as it did from being helpfully forthcoming. Approaching the world with this straightforwardness wasn’t really a conscious choice – it […]
From The Vault (Part 2)
One of my main goals in traveling internationally was to take fantastic photographs in unfamiliar areas. I have gone through the thousands of images I have from the past 3+ months and pulled out some of my favorites to share. Enjoy! And a dorky one of me, for good measure. I have a lot of […]
Legendary
After several months of traveling and my arrival on a new, exotic continent, I had forgotten what I intended to get out of this second leg of my round-the-world trip. I spent ten days trying to distract myself into getting settled in, but even after making some great memories with lovely people, I still felt […]
Dusk in the Dawn of Happiness
After five days in Bangkok, I needed to get away from the chaos and couldn’t decide what to do. I had the overwhelming urge to go to the ocean and camp out for a while as I got myself settled into Southeast Asia, but I also really wanted to be with a buddy instead of getting […]
Month 3 Round-Up
Wow, what a month! Looking back, I can’t believe all of these destinations were seen, people were visited, photos were taken, and memories were made within such a compressed period of time. In Month 3, my route stopped making logical sense and I ended up zigzagging all over Europe and then over to Asia. These […]
555++
Within minutes of deplaning my Stockholm to Bangkok flight, it was clear I was not in Kansas anymore. I immediately picked up on completely different standards of beauty, methods for doing monetary transactions, ways of judging where to eat, and general treatment of tourists. While my initial reaction was absolute terror, having no idea how long […]
From The Vault
One of my main goals of traveling was to take a lot of photographs. I have taken thousands and thousands and only manage to include a handful in each post. With this in mind, I’ve opened the vault to pick out some snapshots you’ve never seen from previous destinations. Enjoy! […]
Charlotte Messervy 