Showing posts with label wander. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wander. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 21, 2015
LiveWorkWander...
Lucky me! I just got linked to the blog and facebook page of friends of a friend who are traveling the country in their crazy van! It looks like a total blast and their posts are fun, exciting, and downright hilarious. Who are these wanderlust wanderers? A married couple named Jessica and Jorge. Down to Earth and up on wheels ;) Check out their blog for the amazing photos and their FB for the quick and funny posts. It's worth your time, I promise!
Saturday, January 24, 2015
Sunday, January 11, 2015
3 of 50 non-cliché places to visit
Another fun list out from Elite Daily: 50 non-cliche places to visit in your 20s.
I've been to 3 of the 50:
(2) New Orleans, Louisiana for a one night stint in a 3 week cross-country roadtrip with my friends Keith and Amber in 2009. I think it would have been more fun if you were either with a huge group of rowdy people, or if you were interested in getting wasted and having a good time. I liked the street performers and it seemed like there was music every block. We walked past the House of Blues and tons of bars but it was actually much more low-key than I expected. I remember wondering if the city was still recovering from Hurricane Katrina. The architecture had an old riverboat-times style of the 20s. You can tell its roots were wealthy and stylish.
(16) Christiania Denmark, either a small city within or just outside of Copenhagen, this is a little community most well-known for its order without government order...mostly meaning people smoke, buy, and sell weed and other merchandise without any outside regulation. No photos are allowed (for obvious reasons) and I heard there are sometimes raids but that usually the people of the town are warned ahead of time. It seemed like a happy and peaceful place. Everyone minded their business or looked around at the shops or walked along the river or through the town. There was a lot of artwork and some funky buildings. I would suggest checking it out.
(40) Plitvice (pronounced Plit-VEETcha) National Park, in Croatia, was one of the only things I really knew about the country before visiting in 2011. It is far from most cities (which was great because a visit resulted in driving through most of the country to reach it and lead us to a crazy fun night in Zagreb, the capitol of Croatia). It was definitely beautiful but VERY crowded. I would suggest getting here either "off season" or early in the am. I was there around 3-5 pm and it is in a bit of a valley so the really vibrant colors weren't QUITE as miraculous as you may have seen...don't get me wrong, it was still stunning!
I've been to 3 of the 50:
(2) New Orleans, Louisiana for a one night stint in a 3 week cross-country roadtrip with my friends Keith and Amber in 2009. I think it would have been more fun if you were either with a huge group of rowdy people, or if you were interested in getting wasted and having a good time. I liked the street performers and it seemed like there was music every block. We walked past the House of Blues and tons of bars but it was actually much more low-key than I expected. I remember wondering if the city was still recovering from Hurricane Katrina. The architecture had an old riverboat-times style of the 20s. You can tell its roots were wealthy and stylish.
(16) Christiania Denmark, either a small city within or just outside of Copenhagen, this is a little community most well-known for its order without government order...mostly meaning people smoke, buy, and sell weed and other merchandise without any outside regulation. No photos are allowed (for obvious reasons) and I heard there are sometimes raids but that usually the people of the town are warned ahead of time. It seemed like a happy and peaceful place. Everyone minded their business or looked around at the shops or walked along the river or through the town. There was a lot of artwork and some funky buildings. I would suggest checking it out.
(40) Plitvice (pronounced Plit-VEETcha) National Park, in Croatia, was one of the only things I really knew about the country before visiting in 2011. It is far from most cities (which was great because a visit resulted in driving through most of the country to reach it and lead us to a crazy fun night in Zagreb, the capitol of Croatia). It was definitely beautiful but VERY crowded. I would suggest getting here either "off season" or early in the am. I was there around 3-5 pm and it is in a bit of a valley so the really vibrant colors weren't QUITE as miraculous as you may have seen...don't get me wrong, it was still stunning!
Have you been to any of the places on the list?
What do you think about them? Any suggestions or thoughts?
Friday, January 9, 2015
Who Do You Travel With?
I have many a cohort in wandering and all of them are absolutely fabulous travel-buddies. Traveling alone allows you to meet new friends a bit easier I think, but traveling with your friends brings you even closer together, teaches you even more about yourself and about them that you may not have guessed was possible!
For me, those new friends and those travel buddies are what really make the trip worth while. They are the memories that we have, and the place we end up is the stunning backdrop to the trip with THEM. People are important. When we travel, even if we start out alone, I think we always come back to how important our interconnectedness is. Our human desire for socializing and for connecting and for sharing is an overwhelming addition to our journey which more often than not becomes the journey itself. Enjoy the journey...whomever it may be ;)
Wednesday, January 7, 2015
US Travel Destinations!
We are so often eager to travel away from home, that sometimes US citizens forget that far away from home can often be within our own country. There are so many different ecosystems, geographic landmarks and destinations to be observed that it's worth taking a look at some of the top destinations that people visit the United States for...
of these, I've seen Niagara Falls, Yosemite National Park and Watkin's Glen State Park.
Sequoia National Park, Glacier National Park, and Haiku Stair are on my list!
of these, I've seen Niagara Falls, Yosemite National Park and Watkin's Glen State Park.
Sequoia National Park, Glacier National Park, and Haiku Stair are on my list!
How many have you been to?
What was your favorite?
What would you add to the list?
Saturday, December 13, 2014
Want to travel but have too many excuses?
Here's a little secret: You'll always have an excuse.
There, I said it. There will always be a million reasons why you should NOT quit your job or take sabbatical or take all of your vacation days at once to travel the globe. There will always be rent to pay and bills to pay and loans to pay and weddings to go to and baby showers and your family holidays. Those things will ALWAYS be an excuse.
They work as excuses for most people. I try not to let them be my excuses, but the reality is if I could do whatever I wanted right now, I would sell everything in my apartment or bring it to storage, say many thanks to my employer, and peace out to travel the world. So I still use these self-proclaimed excuses and they hold me back from the life I actually know that I am capable of and the life I believe most human beings desire until I decide not to let them hold me back. Whether it's because they want to travel or to have more time with their families and stay at home or whether it's because they want to be their own boss or they have a dream business that they want to create, there is SOMETHING out there bigger than most of us understand that we are suppressing when we accept the "typical" path, the path that says we will work our way up the food chain, save for retirement and finally be "free" at the age of 65...at which point we will probably NOT retire because we have become so accustomed to being workaholics that we just don't know HOW to relax and enjoy the world around us!
So today, I was thankful to read an excellent blog post by a girl named Kate, who grew up not too far from where I am as I type this, and who is most likely somewhere completely and utterly different right now. Her post might shock you or make you spring into action, or it might make you feel crappy because you accept that what she says is right and you also accept that you aren't going to do anything about it. That's the amazing thing about life. At ANY GIVEN moment, we are making a plethora of choices.
I'm a firm believer that timing is everything. So maybe when you read Kate's post, it'll be your "ah-hah" moment, or maybe it'll have to wait. Whatever the timing may be, I think her post is relevant. It gives good information about how you can make the credit system (that holds so many people down) actually work FOR you not only giving youa swift kick in the rear, but also by giving you exactly what you need...with a little research, that is. She'll give you some pointers on how to get to certain places from her own experience and she'll let you know just what it takes to make it work.
One of my favorite things about what she says is that we are more trapped and unable to get out of our own way when we have too many material things but when we have nothing, suddenly we are more free and capable of doing ANYTHING than we ever imagined we could be with all of our excuses. It seems completely contrary to logic, but in some ways I think it's getting back to our darwinist selves...survival of the fittest. We learn to survive, and thrive, because we have to...and if you've got wanderlust...it's probably your biggest thrill!
There, I said it. There will always be a million reasons why you should NOT quit your job or take sabbatical or take all of your vacation days at once to travel the globe. There will always be rent to pay and bills to pay and loans to pay and weddings to go to and baby showers and your family holidays. Those things will ALWAYS be an excuse.
They work as excuses for most people. I try not to let them be my excuses, but the reality is if I could do whatever I wanted right now, I would sell everything in my apartment or bring it to storage, say many thanks to my employer, and peace out to travel the world. So I still use these self-proclaimed excuses and they hold me back from the life I actually know that I am capable of and the life I believe most human beings desire until I decide not to let them hold me back. Whether it's because they want to travel or to have more time with their families and stay at home or whether it's because they want to be their own boss or they have a dream business that they want to create, there is SOMETHING out there bigger than most of us understand that we are suppressing when we accept the "typical" path, the path that says we will work our way up the food chain, save for retirement and finally be "free" at the age of 65...at which point we will probably NOT retire because we have become so accustomed to being workaholics that we just don't know HOW to relax and enjoy the world around us!
So today, I was thankful to read an excellent blog post by a girl named Kate, who grew up not too far from where I am as I type this, and who is most likely somewhere completely and utterly different right now. Her post might shock you or make you spring into action, or it might make you feel crappy because you accept that what she says is right and you also accept that you aren't going to do anything about it. That's the amazing thing about life. At ANY GIVEN moment, we are making a plethora of choices.
I'm a firm believer that timing is everything. So maybe when you read Kate's post, it'll be your "ah-hah" moment, or maybe it'll have to wait. Whatever the timing may be, I think her post is relevant. It gives good information about how you can make the credit system (that holds so many people down) actually work FOR you not only giving youa swift kick in the rear, but also by giving you exactly what you need...with a little research, that is. She'll give you some pointers on how to get to certain places from her own experience and she'll let you know just what it takes to make it work.
One of my favorite things about what she says is that we are more trapped and unable to get out of our own way when we have too many material things but when we have nothing, suddenly we are more free and capable of doing ANYTHING than we ever imagined we could be with all of our excuses. It seems completely contrary to logic, but in some ways I think it's getting back to our darwinist selves...survival of the fittest. We learn to survive, and thrive, because we have to...and if you've got wanderlust...it's probably your biggest thrill!
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