I interrupt this regularly scheduled travel blog for a public service announcement about the benefit of using LinkedIn. See, I stumbled across this conversation on Twitter the other day: @foxnomad That’s ok, neither does anybody else in the history of mankind. — Dave Dean (@driftingkiwi) June 14, 2013 I quickly interrupted to add my two […]
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Before leaving on my career break trip, I researched good banks for international travelers – banks that would refund out of network ATM fees and that wouldn’t charge foreign currency transaction fees. Several travelers recommended Capital One, so I dove right in, opening checking, savings and credit card accounts more than a year before I
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I hopped off the 151 bus across from the John Hancock Building and waited for the signal to change so I could cross the street. As I did, I pulled out my camera and tilted my neck back as far as it would go so I could snap a picture of one of the tallest
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September 2001. I boarded my first trans-Atlantic flight at the age of 25 to embark on a whirlwind 23 day tour of Europe. This was my long-awaited “post-bar trip” – a so-called rite of passage for many soon-to-be lawyers. I spent months planning it, but back then, my planning consisted of researching tour companies and
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It’s hard to believe it was just two years ago that I was nervously arriving in Vancouver for my first Travel Blog Exchange (TBEX) conference. I had launched this blog (then known as Katie Going Global) just months earlier in anticipation of quitting my job to travel around the former Soviet Union – not as
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You may have noticed things have been a little quiet around here lately. For the time since I started blogging regularly at the beginning of my career break trip, I went a week without posting. Indeed, the last few weeks, I have been struggling to get even one post up and this past
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Marshrutka. In Russian, it means “fixed route.” In short, it is basically a mini-bus, the age, size and comfort of which may vary greatly. It is also the preferred method of public transportation in much of the former Soviet Union. Whether you are going across town, across the country, or across a border, chances are
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May 17 was the big national holiday in Norway: Constitution Day. I was fortunate to be in Trondheim, Norway on Constitution Day several years ago and had a great time watching the parades of Norwegians, young and old, decked out in their national or regional costumes and waving Norwegian flags. It made me proud of
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As I traveled through the former Soviet Union on my career break, I didn’t just write blog posts; I kept a journal as well. I wasn’t always great about keeping up with it, but it was a good outlet to write about things that didn’t really merit their own blog post (or things that I
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During my two week visit to Peru in 2009, I did a three-day, two-night hike in the Colca Canyon, located about five hours outside of Arequipa. I spent the second night of the hike in one of these huts at the Sangalle Oasis on the bottom of the canyon.
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