Over the last few years, as I’ve spent more and more time away from Canada, I’ve really come to appreciate my summers at home. The days are long, the weather is great, and there is so much fun outdoorsy stuff to do! This summer seemed to go by so, so quickly, and I’m sure that’s due to how busy we were. [Read more…] about Day 25: Summer in Canada
Canada
Day 7: Sleeping with a Mouse (Literally!)
This summer I hiked the West Coast Trail (WCT) on Vancouver Island with 2 girlfriends. It’s a 75km trail of rough terrain that takes 7 days and 6 nights to hike. It was the longest overnight hiking trip I’d ever taken and it tested me both physically and mentally in more ways than I have ever been tested.
I’ll write more about the WCT in another post, but for today, I would like to share about the night I slept with a mouse.
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Day 6: Feeling Culture Shock in Your Own Country
It’s weird to think about feeling culture shock in your own country, because it’s a culture that you know so, so well. Where you grow up and who you grow up around indicates so much of your behavior as an adult and how you interact with people.
So how is it possible to experience culture shock in your own country?
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Day 3: South Korea & Coming Home
After a rocky month in Taiwan, I was excited to arrive in Seoul for our final week in Asia.
We arrived late at night and we set out to check out the city early the next morning. First stop – getting a SIM card. This proved to be much more difficult than we originally imagined. The language barrier was steep in Seoul and we weren’t able to translate our questions about getting a SIM card because we didn’t have data. After a couple of hours of hunting for a SIM card, we finally found a place that sold them in the metro.
Because Taiwan had less than impressed us right off the get go, I was uncertain about what I would think about Seoul, but I almost immediately liked it. It’s a massive city with a number of different interesting areas to check out.
4,058km later….
I’ve arrived in Atlanta! Let’s back up a little bit though… [Read more…] about 4,058km later….
A Traveller’s Bucket List
Bucket List’s – some swear by them, while others would argue to the grave that they taint the act of travelling. My opinion: I’m into it. I will be the first to acknowledge that I have gone to some places to simply check something off of my Bucket List, to get a great photo, or to say that I’ve seen something that everyone else wants to see; however, I will also acknowledge that while on my way to ticking off my next Bucket List item, I almost always stumble and fall, and have all sorts of adventures in between. Never once have I seen or done something that was on my Bucket List that I regret. Yes, there are some lines that I wouldn’t wait in again, or some things that I wouldn’t pay to see or do again, but would I take any of it back – most definitely not. [Read more…] about A Traveller’s Bucket List