Introducing: Gone Workabout
“My life is better than your two-week holiday.” – Written on a women’s bathroom wall, Queenstown, New Zealand The arrogant chalk statement, scrawled above the pub toilet in New Zealand’s […]
“My life is better than your two-week holiday.” – Written on a women’s bathroom wall, Queenstown, New Zealand The arrogant chalk statement, scrawled above the pub toilet in New Zealand’s […]
As featured on GoAbroad: In New Zealand, trail maps, guardrails and souvenir shops are not associated with outdoor excursions like they are in other countries. With so few people and […]
An anecdote: Traveling puts us at the mercy of strangers. Especially when stumbling over the barriers of language, minute relationships are built on help – freely given – and gratitude […]
Diploma packed away, plane ticket booked, and my new suitcase – a graduation gift – bulging at the zips, I prepared for a year-long volunteer program in Glasgow, Scotland. 22 […]
As featured on The Traveling Advisor: Too many travel narratives are written about the highly improbable, crazy or suicidal, vain-glorious antics someone participates in simply to publish. Too few are […]
It was not how I expected to spend my last English class: clustered into a darkened bedroom with the students, watching Korean Pop TV on mute, and anxiously hoping Thai […]
Every one of you has traveled at some point, or shown an interest in the world around you. You’ve lived on a shoestring, or exchanged ideas with other backpackers. So […]