Life List #148: Do yoga.
OK, so I only went to one intro to yoga class at The Yoga Barn while I was in Ubud, Bali. But that one class counts for my life list goal of "do yoga," right? I mean, I did "do yoga" while in Bali. Technically....
July 19, 2012
Catching waves.
The problem with long-term travel is that things stop feeling exciting. Whereas on a one or two week vacation everything feels new and different, sometimes, after traveling for a while, things start to feel mundane. Oh, it's just another beach. Oh, it's just another temple....
#64: Volunteer abroad. (Volunteering at Sambhali Trust in Setrawa, India.)
My name is Valerie. I am 31 years old. My favorite color is green. My favorite fruit is bananas. My favorite vegetable is eggplant. My favorite animal is a dog. Today my feeling is worried. Every day we sat in a circle with our Sambhali Trust butterfly class and one by...
February 9, 2012
Life List #26: See competitive eating in another country.
My entire trip around Asia has been designed to get me to Bangkok right at this moment. It was part of the reason I decided to switch my initial flight in from Bangkok to Singapore. It was part of the reason I decided against getting...
Life list #73: Get a massage.
I'd never gotten a massage before. I don't really like when people touch me unless it's a guy I want to sleep with. And I get bored easily. Seriously, I have trouble going to movies because by the time the previews are over I'm cursing...
Life list: #116 Take a horse and carriage ride.
I had plans to meet up again with Gulender and Murat, who I met a few weeks ago, the last time I was staying in Istanbul. I had no idea what they had in store for me for the day. We started with breakfast at a...
October 17, 2011
Life List #12: Ride on a hot air balloon.
On Thursday morning I woke up dark and early at 5am to get picked up for my hot air balloon ride. Really, it's the thing to do in Cappadocia. I waited with two others from my hostel until the bus driver came to whisk us...
October 5, 2011
Backpack through Europe for at least three months. (Life List #1)
Writing something down next to number one on your bucket list can be daunting. It's the one item everyone is guaranteed to read and it just sits there like a sore thumb waiting to be bandaged. Waiting to be ticked off. It has to be...
September 6, 2011
Life List #24: Throw tomatoes at La Tomatina.
I was beginning to think I might never see a tomato. That I'd come home from that small town in Spain, from La Tomatina, from the biggest tomato fight in the world, with my 4 euro dress still pristinely white. The cannon that signaled the...
Life List: #20: Go to the Louvre.
As I said, Paris wasn't in the plan. I intentionally left it off my itinerary because I had decided that I only wanted to go to places I've never been before. And I went to Paris five years ago. But I was in need of...