So you're graduating from college (or high school). Now, what? I looked through my options a few months before graduation and considered a number of things like graduate school, volunteering and work at newspapers. But I didn't pick any of them and decided to travel instead. There are a … [Read more...] about 5 Post Graduate Options for Aspiring Travelers
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Five Years Since Graduation: What Have I Learned?
This week marks five years since I graduated from college. Five years since I donned the white dress, carried the red roses and walked across the Cistern for the first time. Five years since I left my beloved Charleston to go traveling, which became indefinite. Five years since I made the … [Read more...] about Five Years Since Graduation: What Have I Learned?
How to Start a Travel Blog
I get asked a lot of questions about what it's like to run a travel blog and how to go about starting one. You may have already read posts on other blogs like this, but it's time to share how I started my blog, my mistakes you can avoid and why you should start one. Anything I've learned in … [Read more...] about How to Start a Travel Blog
What No One Tells You About the Travel Lifestyle
People ask me about my job and what I do with my time. I try to explain, although usually don't fully, that I work part of the year and travel the rest, especially since my writing allows me to be anywhere with WiFi. After graduating from college, I didn't get the office job that many of my … [Read more...] about What No One Tells You About the Travel Lifestyle
Scenes from Rural Louisiana
I just returned from a whirlwind trip around Louisiana with a different location each night in a bus with 30 other writers. The pace of these trips is truly exhausting, so I try to limit them to one or two per year. The rest of the year, I prefer to create my own trips or go with less than 10 people … [Read more...] about Scenes from Rural Louisiana