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Wadi Rum, Jordan

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...

Hierve el Agua, Oaxaca

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...

New Orleans

2020: Not a Travel Year in Review

Each year for the past nine years, I’ve published a “Travel Year in Review” post with month-by-month recaps of that year’s top adventures. While some years were considerably more eventful than others, I’ve always...