![]() ![]() I was so amazed at what they were doing that the next day I decided to quit my job. I decided to travel after meeting five backpackers in a shared taxi while on vacation in Thailand. Idle hands are the Devil’s playground!ġ8. Maybe because I grew up in New England, I have the Puritan work ethic, and if I don’t have work to do, I think something is wrong and create work for myself. I would eat sushi every day if I could.ġ7. I love everything about the culture: the food, the history, the etiquette, the landscape, the architecture - all of it. I’ve been to over 30 Dave Matthews Band concerts. I’d like to travel for the next few years, but who can say what the future holds and where it will take us? For now, I’m enjoying the ride and see no reason to hang up my backpack just yet.ġ5. People always ask will I do this forever. There are parts I want to / have visited ( Dubai, Jordan, Israel, Qatar, Oman) but, as a whole, the area is low on my list of places to visit relative to other regions in the world (India, Bhutan, and Nepal being the highest).ġ4. I don’t have a burning desire to visit most Middle Eastern countries. I am always ready to discuss and debate the world any time of the day and with anyone, no matter how well I know them.ġ3. I live and breathe politics, and it is the only news I keep up with while traveling. After travel, politics is my second love. Speaking of Gatsby, I learned to swing dance so I could throw myself a Gatsby-themed birthday party. But maybe I’ve just read The Great Gatsby too much.ġ2. I think that would be an exciting time to live in. If I could ever pick what time period I could live in, I’d pick 1920s Prohibition America. It’s way better than any of the pop music out there.ġ1. I’m a huge fan of soul, Motown, blues, and jazz. “Sorry, your traditional and heartfelt cooking doesn’t go with my dietary needs.” It’s culturally insensitive. If you go to a village in Mongolia and you are given food, it’s insulting to refuse. I think it’s rude to turn down food in other cultures. I gave up vegetarianism when I started to travel.ĩ. It wasn’t eating meat I was against, but rather industrial farming and the chemicals/antibiotics in the meat that I didn’t like. After reading Fast Food Nation, I decided to give up meat and was a vegetarian for four years. I don’t cook much on the road because I hate how hostel kitchens aren’t fully stocked and everyone crowds them at the same time, but once in a while, I like to cook a massive meal for my fellow travelers.Ĩ. I’m still technically certified to teach high school history.ħ. I went to college to be a high school history teacher. It was so bad that I had to be hospitalized for three days and put on a morphine drip.Ħ. I got really bad food poisoning when I was in Costa Rica. When I was younger, I wanted to be an archaeologist because of the Indiana Jones movies.ĥ. (I also never went west of the Mississippi until I was 25.)Ĥ. My travel experiences up until then were a series of road trips with my parents and a drunken weekend in Montréal when I was 19. I never traveled independently until I went to Costa Rica at age 23. I also had one of those bowl haircuts, but I prefer to forget about that fact.ģ. When I was younger, I was obsessed with Pinky and the Brain. I don’t like heights and any turbulence makes me think the plane is about to crash. ![]() I love airports, lounges, and elite status, but the act of flying makes me sick. So, to kick off the second half of the year, here’s a little bit about me:ġ. There’s more than just a writer and travel fanatic here. Since a lot has happened in the last nine years (professionally and personally), I wanted to update this website so you can learn a little more about me and my interests. Back in 2011, I wrote this post featuring some personal facts about my life. ![]()
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