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¿Como se dice.. It starts to click?

I woke up the next morning refreshed and ready for day 4 of class. On my walk to school I reflected on how much I was enjoying my mornings in Oaxaca: the...

No Sé: The Quest to Learn Spanish Begins

For those of you that don’t know, a vast majority of the students I teach speak Spanish as their first language and English as their second. Some don’t speak...

Xela to Atitlan: Guatemala days 6-10

Get ready for a long one… Before setting out to Guatemala I’d hoped to do two things: hike Acatenango volcano, which I’d planned for the end of my trip, and...

Mellow Xela: Guatemala days 1-5

Hi hi, it’s me again! I’m having a hard time understanding how it’s been 9 months since I last left the country. I guess that’s what happens when you go back...

Kilimanjaro Days 4-8

In our debrief the night before, Peter had let us know that Day 4 we would have a pretty big day; we’d be going to Lava Tower, which was well over 15,000’,...

Kilimanjaro Days 1 - 3

The next morning we took a short flight to Tanzania from the Nairobi airport. This experience was much smoother than the one coming into Nairobi, though we...

Hakuna Matata - Kenya pt 2

After an immensely restful night, we woke up early, ate our breakfast, and were met by two local Maasai men to be escorted to their nearby village. We walked...

Karibu to Kenya - pt 1

We're back! I know I skipped the last week of NZ, and my 3 weeks in Australia.. I'll have to go back and do those when I have the time. But for now, I'm in...

Glaciers, Gertrude, and Going South- Week 7 in NZ

It’s been a while, and a lot has happened! Ally leaving was a huge bummer. It had been refreshing and quite special sharing such a beautiful place with...

Showing Ally the South - Week 6 in NZ

Strap in for another lengthy one. Back on the South Island, I was reunited with my van! Oh how I'd missed her so much in our week-long separation. It's...

The Ally’s and Ray Get Kinda Cray - Week 5, part 2 in NZ

Picking up where we left off… That last morning at the farm, before heading off to explore the caves, Ann cooked us an ostrich egg omelette breakfast. Her...

We’re North! - Week 5, part 1 in NZ

Get ready for a long one! Sorry, not sorry! If it’s overwhelming, perhaps read it in pieces. It’s ironic, I’ve found that while solo traveling you’re not...

Roller Coaster of emotions - Week 4 in NZ

Hi all, Thanks for following this adventure of mine! It’s been so fun to write it all down and recount the highs and lows of this trip. Back to where we left...

Mother Nature shows off - Week 3 in NZ

As I wrote this out I realized that I should probably do a little blurb on Will so you know a bit about the person I’m spending 24/7 with. Will Gibbon,...

No longer solo! - Week 2 in NZ ctd.

February 20th I woke up, so excited for the day because it meant that I was meeting up with my Christchurch friends! I drove about an hour and a half from my...

Type 2 fun - Week 2-ish in NZ

Me again! I know this is multiple updates in a row, but I am also a little behind and trying to make up for it. After two peaceful nights in Kaikōura, I...

The Adventure Begins! - Week 1 in NZ

Hello all, This is the first attempt at a newsletter email, with updates from my travels in New Zealand. Here goes nothing… I arrived in Christchurch, New...