Social Media as a Millennial Social media is something I’ve been thinking about a lot lately. Last year, in 2023, I finally decided to make some changes in my daily life in regards to all the new technology we’ve had from like 2008 onwards. For me, that looked like deleting certain apps completely and planning…
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notes on coachella
Notes By now Coachella definitely feels like old news. Heck, it felt like people were over it after weekend 1. But I still wanted to jot down some of my thoughts about attending the festival as a non-influencer. I think a lot of the complaints and negatives you hear about Coachella are in the influencer…
Notes on Traveling Sober and Being “Sober Curious”
updated January 2024 I never saw my extended drinking hiatus coming. Or ever imagined that I would take a trip where I consumed no alcohol (I mean who does that?!). But 2020 was a strange year to say the least, and it lead to my traveling sober in 2021, a first for me since I…
Notes on Hosteling as an Almost-30-Something
When I quit my job to travel at the end of 2019, I fit in 3 big trips before the pandemic hit hard–3 weeks in India, a month-long Eurotrip, and just over 2 weeks in Costa Rica. I stayed in hostels every single day on those trips except for a 4-day stint in London where…
Notes on Celebrating 4th of July
I wanted to post this photo on my Instagram story for the 4th of July: my friends and I in 2013 looking patriotic as f**k. But then I didn’t because I thought about what kind of message that would be sending during a really messed up time for America. I thought about captioning it “I’m embarrassed…
How to Best Follow my Travel Adventure
I can’t believe this trip is actually happening! Like I mentioned in previous posts, I plan on writing weekly updates in addition to any other blog posts I feel inspired to share. Usually, I link my content to Facebook so you can view it from there, but now that I’ll be posting a lot more…
Notes on Leaving Something Good to Follow a Dream
Leaving something bad is hard; leaving something good is even harder. Last week I posted about why I want to say no to a lot of things most people say yes to, at least for a little while. The words here are a sort of continuation to that blog. If you’d like to read it…
Notes on Quitting a Job to Travel: What Saying No To Would Mean Saying Yes To
After listening to a Dear Sugar Radio podcast, I felt inspired to reflect on the subject of saying no. It’s so hard in our society to say no, especially for women. I’ve been grappling with this topic in the context of leaving a stable job to travel long term and what that would mean. Does saying no…