What the guy at the ticket counter said would happen: a driver would pick us up in a taxi and take us to the bus station. He would take our receipts, bring them in, exchange them for tickets, and then get us on our bus....
I ate a lot of amazing food while traveling and I made sure not to pho-get to show you what I ate in Vietnam! I ate a lot of Pho, which is a Vietnamese soup made of broth, rice noodles, herbs, and meat. It's perhaps one...
Most of Vietnam was cold. And rainy. It was something I wasn't expecting and was something that made me not want to ever do anything but curl up in the hostel lounge watching movies. I had to adopt the mantra we had set for ourselves...
If you'd asked me six months ago I don't think I would have told you that on January 3, 2012, I'd be sitting among strangers who are somehow friends, in Hanoi, Vietnam, grilling my own meat on the sidewalk, that I'd be ordering too many...
It’s 2011. And that means it is either the year I turn 30 and do the most awesome thing I’ve ever done or that it’s the year I turn 30 and chicken out and be lame. Those were the first words I wrote here in 2011. This...
You would think that being in a country where male backpackers seem to far outnumber female everywhere I go would be heaven. But, quite frankly, it's getting old. You never really know if someone actually likes you for you or if they like that you're...
I make weird faces at myself in the mirror. It's a quirky little habit that I picked up somewhere in my lifetime. Pursed lips, puffed cheeks, flipped tongue, squinted eyes. All kinds of nonsensical expressions. I've recently noticed I do it on Skype too, so...
Perhaps boarding a bus for an all day tour is not the smartest idea when you were out until 4am drinking and had to wake up at 5:30 after approximately zero hours of sleep (for another record: if you tell a 21 year old he...
We drank a lot of beer. Too much. We ate a lot of food. And ordered the entire menu. We made a dance floor. Where there wasn't one. We took shots. Too many. I got engaged. Again. We closed down two bars. Should have been three. I made out with a...
Vietnam is hard to be in sometimes. Because I want to know more about the war. I want to know what my dad did here. I want to know what he saw here. I want to know where he was here. I want to know...