Who doesn’t love free stuff? I, for one, am a huge fan of free stuff. Especially when you’re in a city where everything else costs an arm, a leg, a lock of hair from a centaur and your first-born child.…
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Staying Fit on the Road: 3 Myths That Are Holding You Back
Greetings from New York, New York! I’m ecstatic to be back in the city that stole my heart three years ago and experiencing it from an entirely different perspective as a tourist rather than a resident.
Nutrition for Travelers: Back to Basics
In recent years, the internet has become an absolute shitstorm of misinformation, particularly with regard to the field of nutrition. In my previous life as a dietitian, few things infuriated me more than the so-called “experts” constantly coming out of…
6 Great Places to Brunch Your Face Off in Portland, Oregon
Ah, brunch! Is there a sweeter portmanteau in existence? A better way to spend a tipsy summer afternoon? A classier way stuff your face for hours-on-end? Hint: These are rhetorical questions. Despite the fact that I didn’t fall head-over-heels for Portland, there’s one…
Cusco, Peru: A Foodie’s Paradise
Peru is widely known as having some of the best food in all of South America, and the high-altitude Andean city of Cusco is no exception. The ancient Inca capital overflows with superb dining options, and they’re certainly not limited to…
9 Little Travel Essentials I’ll Never Leave Home Without Again
Compact. Lightweight. Versatile. If every item I packed for my travels could be described using these exact three words, I’d be the World’s Most Efficient Packer and no doubt collect my Nobel Prize shortly thereafter. They’d have to create a new category especially for…
My Favorite (Free) Language Resources
As you may know, a major life goal of mine is to one day be multi-lingual. I have varying levels of proficiency in Spanish and Thai (much more Spanish than Thai) and the very basics in a few others, but I’m…
5 Questions Travelers Need To Stop Asking
Is it just me, or is anyone else tired of answering the same goddamn questions each and every time you set foot in a new city? Each and every time you arrive at a new hostel? Each and EVERY time you…
Tips For Staying Sane When You’re Unemployed
For the nomadic among us, we’ve all been there–immediately following, or perhaps before, a long furlough overseas, it’s not uncommon to spend at least a short period of time unemployed. It may be a welcome and necessary part of your transition to…
Chiang Mai, Thailand: My Favorite Things
Admittedly, this post is arriving a little late to the party; I can’t even count the number of times I’ve been asked to give suggestions for things to do and see in Chiang Mai since I moved there back in 2011.…
