There’s a paradox I noticed after returning home from nearly a year spent on the road. The paradox being that when I’m living a life of constant travel, at some point, I inevitably start to…
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Thought bubbles: I am not this person: am I this person?
I am not this person. Am I this person? How was I this person? Questions reeling through my mind the other day, after a bad night. After a moment when I messed up. When my…
Thought bubbles: travel today and the rise of the experience chasing backpacker
My boyfriend and I have been on the road for awhile now and seen our fair share of countries in the process, and it seems that everywhere we go – from Bali to Nicaragua –…
Thought bubbles: Travel before
Sometimes I wonder what it must have been like to travel before mass tourism. Before guidebooks, before the internet, before Trip Advisor, before data plans and SIM cards. Before globalization and the rapid spread of…
Thought bubbles: the paradox of cohesion
Consistency is a tricky beast. Society/people/our expectations of ourselves always seems to be asking us to pick a path, to find a niche, to produce consistently within a certain theme, or hell, even a certain…
Thought bubbles: the ebbs and flows of a digital appetite
Flicking through glossy images of fashion, beauty, style, life, -you name it- on the internet is a lusty game. It’s intoxicating to soak in all the contrived and lacquered beauty, all the well t h…