The setting is Berlin Schönefeld Airport at 5:30 a.m. on a weekday in mid-June, 2015. Jessica had been on a bar crawl until an hour and a half previously, had made the mistake of napping for half an hour, and now felt like absolute hell. As she squinted in the sunlight starting to filter in …
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For many countries, 2020 has been separated into 4 parts. We had January through March, when people knew what COVID was, and knew it was bad, but it had not spread to a worldwide scale, and most people were carrying on their lives like normal. Then there was March through May in all of its …
I’ve always hated Black Friday. I’ve never enjoyed going shopping, which is part of it, but the other part is it always just seemed like a money grab for large corporations that already have plenty of it. Once I allowed myself to be dragged to a mall at midnight on this “holiday,” which is when …
If you’ve read my blog at all, you know I’m all about hostels. I’ve worked for them, I write for them, and I always stay in them no matter where I’m traveling to. Regardless of where I am, although I always meet interesting people from all over the world, I also consistently meet the same …
The historic city of Mostar in Bosnia and Herzegovina is so beautiful that it doesn’t look real. Check out seven of the best pictures I took when I was there and you’ll see what I mean. 1. This shot of the Neretva River See that bridge? That’s Stari Most, or “Old Bridge.” It was built …
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After years of almost missing almost every flight I’ve ever taken, and once almost not being allowed to board the plane due to a visa issue, I had my biggest flight-related shitshow to date: I missed an international flight. I live in San Francisco, CA, and I had planned to meet my friend in Split, …
It’s no secret that New York City is hands-down one of the priciest cities in the U.S. However, that doesn’t mean that you can’t visit on a budget. Here’s six fun and FREE things you can do in New York, illustrated by pictures of me traipsing around the city in a cow onesie last week, …
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From the same cow onesie-clad traveler who brought you “7 Travel Mistakes I Made – And How You Can Avoid Them,” I present to you…7 more travel mistakes I made! Wait another 6-8 months and maybe we’ll have a third edition! Yippee! 1. Waiting to book transportation between popular cities until the day of Just like booking …
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This week, the music video to the vastly overplayed Spanglish summer hit “Despacito” bypassed “See You Again” by Wiz Khalifa ft. Charlie Puth as the most-watched YouTube video of all time, according to TechCrunch. The most watched YouTube video of all time. That means that more than cat videos, more than baby videos, more than …
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Boston, Massachusetts isn’t exactly party central. But, like pretty much any city, you can find fun and cheap nightlife/other drinking opportunities if you know where to look. Except for maybe like, Dubuque, Iowa, but then again, I haven’t been there, so I wouldn’t know. I recently flew from my California hometown to Boston to meet …
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