Traveling Is Exhausting As Hell
I clean my room and make my bed before I leave for a trip, because there’s no better feeling than arriving home to a clean room and made bed and plopping down for a good 12 hours of sleep.
When You Learn, Teach. When You Get, Give. – Maya Angelou
Since my first trip abroad to Vietnam when I was 20, I’ve been learning everything about traveling one flight at time. Tips, tricks, hacks, mistakes. They’re all a part of it. Most I learned from experiencing, some I learned from experts and those who came before me. And some from my fellow travelers. I learned how to travel for cheap. And then cheaper. I learned how to save time planning. Or not plan at all.
This is where I’m trying to do my part to give back and try to inspire a few of you to get out and plan that dream trip you’ve always wanted to do. You never stop learning. This is why I’m still in love with traveling after all these years. Everyday is a chance to encounter something new and experience something different. The world is just so big and it’s always changing. I’m doing my part to just ride this wave.
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I clean my room and make my bed before I leave for a trip, because there’s no better feeling than arriving home to a clean room and made bed and plopping down for a good 12 hours of sleep.
There are plenty of guides out there that teaches you how to travel on the cheap. You’ve seen it. Travel for under $50 a day.
The story below was from my last visit to the famous and original tuna auction at the Tsukiji Market before it closed in 2018.
With more than half of my year spent traveling and away from Los Angeles, I’ve learned to live with less. In fact, it’s always a shock when I come home and find that I own things I’ve completely forgot about and don’t need on a day to day basis.
I love old relics and antiques. There is something beautiful about touching an object worn away by time, knowing that it was once brand new and brought cherished by someone who may no longer even be on this earth.
If there’s one experience that sums up the feeling of visiting Marrakesh for the first time, it’s watching the food vendors set up their collective stalls in the Jemaa El-Fna square just at dusk.
I’m so deeply traumatized by the cold in San Francisco that when there was mention of a new Japanese style spa opening up here, I had to try it for myself.
Since I had been subsisting on a diet made up mostly of meat pies and McDonald’s soft serve while driving through New Zealand, I decided to change it up a bit upon my arrival to Australia.
Today marks the 100th birthday of the National Park Services. And damnit, I am especially proud to be an American today.
There are some amazing places to visit around the world. Just from the World Heritage Site lists, you’ll find 981 of them and most Bucket Lists will have places like Stonehenge, Machu Picchu and the Pyramids of Giza on them.
If you haven’t read my guide on “How To Do The Tsukiji Fish Market Right,” read that first and come back here.
Me: Hola! How do get you to _______? Local: No problem! Take tricycle going that way, and then get jeepney. No problem!