They often say hindsight is 20/20. That certainly has been the case with my career break trip – and there’s nothing like reading a book about how to take a career break to travel to make you reflect upon your own journey. Jeff Jung recently published The Career Break Traveler’s Handbook, one of the five […]
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My friend Ali at Ali’s Adventures has nominated me to participate in the Best Dozen Posts of 2012, a round-up of posts from last year. Then I’ll nominate five more people to participate so we can keep the fun going. While I looked back at some of the best places I visited in 2012, I
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My visit to Chernobyl and the surrounding area was one of the most fascinating experiences of my entire trip. In this photo, you can see Reactors 3 and 4 on the left (Reactor 4 is the one that exploded in 1986). To the right are Reactors 1 and 2. Amazingly, Reactor 1 continued to function
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Over the last month, I’ve read quite a few lists of the so-called best places to visit in 2013. These lists come out every year and every year there seem to be a couple destinations that show up on list after list: Jordan has been a big one in the past; Myanmar seems to be
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We are kind of lacking in the snowfall department in Chicago this year, so I thought I’d flash back to where I was last year at this time – in snow, snowy Kiev. It was snowing when I arrived in the Ukrainian capital on January 14, 2012 and it continued to snow for the next
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This is a guest post from Kami Napora. Kami is a Polish girl who tries to balance full-time work with a love of travel. She spends every free moment exploring new places or returning to old ones. She’s already visited 43 countries, but new adventures are still ahead, with Morocco and Canada trips just around
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If you’ve been following my journey over the last year and a half, you know I have quite a bit of experience traveling by train – from riding the Trans-Siberian across Russia to partying on an overnight train in Georgia to sweltering in 100 degree heat as I crossed Kazakhstan. Every trip brought new memories
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I visited Wurzburg, Germany in October 2007 as part of a whirlwind tour through the country that also included Frankfurt, Trier, Cologne, Heidelberg and Stuttgart. While the weather in late October wasn’t always ideal, I loved the vibrant fall colors like those I saw at the Fortress Marienberg in Wurzburg, pictured above.
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Remember when I wrote back in November about feeling unsettled and longing for my old life? Well, I realized my old life isn’t really what I want. If you’ve been following along since I first left Chicago in August 2011 to travel for a year, you may recall I was ready to go. My life
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Lahij is a village of a few hundred people in the mountains in northeastern Azerbaijan. I spent a weekend there, taking a break from the hustle and bustle of Baku while I waited to get my visas to Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. A center of craftsmen since medieval times, Lahic’s cobblestone streets are lined with copper
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