2023: The Travel Year in Review
In all my years of compiling end-of-year travel recaps, I have had a lot of good years. Like 2016, when I visited 29 countries in a single year. Or 2011, when I graduated college...
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Blessings of an Involuntary Sabbatical
When I closed my full-time travel chapter in 2017, having lived abroad for years and then backpacked for sixteen months, I thought my long-term travel days were behind me. I knew the grind of...
2022: The Travel Year in Review
Life may look a little strange during these, ahem, “unprecedented times,” but if there’s one tried and true tradition I can stick with, it’s my annual travel recap. Can you believe I’ve now been...
Why Oaxaca City, Mexico Is the Perfect Pandemic Travel Destination
When I returned from my latest trip to Spain in the fall of 2019, I never imagined it would be another 31 months before I next left the country. Then again, nothing about the...
2019: The Travel Year in Review
“Happy New Year!” I proclaim, blowing an imaginary noisemaker, throwing invisible confetti, and conveniently ignoring the fact that I’m a month late in posting my end-of-year roundup. Forgive me for my unseemly procrastination, but...
2018: The (Very Belated!) Travel Year in Review
I know, I know! We’re already a third of the way through 2019, and here I am talking about 2018. But since 2011, I’ve finished off each year by looking back on the places...
2017: The Travel Year in Review
Well, folks, we made it through another year. And what a year it was. While most of the world sought redemption for the world events of 2016 but were met with a new crop of issues,...
