yoga teacher. world traveler. writer. podcast host.
I woke up a bit before 6am this morning to the familiar rumble in my stomach that told me I was going to be sick. I spent the next 30-45 minutes fighting the pain and the waves of nausea before I couldn’t fight it anymore. I proceeded to spend the next 4 hours getting sick.
Why am I telling you this?
Because I’ve realized that getting sick is the one time when I’m traveling that I really, really want to go home. [Read more…] about Day 19: Being Sick in a Foreign Country
Yesterday, I wrote about my 19 favorite things about Atlanta, so I think it’s pretty clear that I love the city; but, today I wanted to write a little bit more about falling in love with Atlanta.
In September 2015, Ryan joined Praxis, and his business partner was in Atlanta, GA. So, we picked up our lives and moved to the Southern US. Ryan had to start his job a month before our lease was up in Canada, so he headed down a month earlier than I did. As he found an apartment and got settled into life in Georgia, I packed up the rest of our life back home, finished up work at lululemon, and embarked on a 5 day road trip to get down to Georgia.
After 5 days of solo travel, I was super stoked to see the Georgia state sign and know that I was almost “home”. Arriving at the apartment that Ryan had found felt strange. We had almost no furniture, cutlery or groceries, and it hardly felt like I was “home”. [Read more…] about Day 18: Falling in love with Atlanta
Today, I wrote a post for The World Wanderers about how to set a budget and save for your next trip. The biggest question that we get over at TWW is how we have managed to save for all of our trips. In this post, I outline 5 tips to help you save for your next big trip!
Enjoy!
It’s been one of those days. Nothing particularly bad has happened or gone wrong, yet I feel under the weather and slightly disenchanted with life. I find that the best cure for these types of feelings is to focus on the positive things in life, rather than the negative. Today, I am going to do that in the form of gratitude.
So, today I am grateful for…
We arrived in Mexico City only 10 days ago, and I’m already in love with the city. Here are my 5 favorite things about Mexico City so far:
1. Amazing Avocados
Have I mentioned I have a serious love affair with guacamole, and that avocados take up a good chunk of my food budget at home?
In Mexico, we can get amazing guacamole for an affordable price at nearly all the Mexican restaurants we’ve visited AND we can get amazing, ripe avocados for about half the price as we pay back home.
Hallelujah! I’m not going to go broke because of avocados after all!
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.
[Read more…] about Day 7: Sleeping with a Mouse (Literally!)
