Hindsight is always 20/20, right? The passage of time always seems to give you a new perspective and now that it has been more than two years since I first left to travel around the former Soviet Union, and a year since I returned, I feel like I can look back at my […]
Do you believe in luck? I have heard some people say that they don’t – that everything they have, they earned themselves through hard work. If they are lucky, it’s because they made their own luck. I don’t dispute the claim that good things usually come to those who work hard and position themselves to
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I turned 37 last Friday. When I turned 36 last year, I had a bit of a meltdown. Rather than celebrating with friends, I was all alone in a hotel room in Almaty, Kazakhstan, bawling my eyes out, freaked out about the future and the sudden idea that I was going to be 40 soon.
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Small racquetball racquet in one hand, fuzzy green tennis ball in the other, I faced my opponent: the ever imposing garage door. Standing in the driveway separating our townhome from the garage, I bounced ball after ball back at the garage door until one of the neighbors would complain about the noise and I would
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I started off slowly, shyly uttering just a few words at a time. I was unsure of my pronunciation and lacked confidence that I remembered the right word or the right case or tense. My attempts at speaking Russian in those first couple months of my travels through the former Soviet Union were often met
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Two and a half years ago I wrote about my thoughts on Egypt as I watched the Egyptian people take to the streets to protest and eventually overthrow Hosni Mubarak. I followed along on Facebook as the tour manager who led me around the country in 2008 gave a continuous account of what was happening
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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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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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