Category: Travel Journal

August 1, 2018

Budapest, Bratislava, Vienna, Milan & Paris

Notes on solo travel It started raining as I arrived at the Vörösmarty Square for the free walking tour in Budapest. I looked around to try and remember the shop that I saw umbrellas being sold. Before I could turn all the way, a young, South Korean woman offered to share her umbrella. I took her up on it as we stood listening to the tour intro. As the rain got heavier I realized that I needed cover of my own. I told her I was going to run and buy one. She looked at me confused and said, “you can ...

December 17, 2017

Start with Your Why: My First Assignment at Remote Year

What’s your reason for getting up in the morning? What purpose does your job serve? What does the world need from you? Why are you here? These are the questions I was asked during my first week of employment with Remote Year, a startup that brings a group of inspiring professionals together to travel, live, and work in different cities around the world for a month each. It makes perfect sense to consider these questions whether you’re just starting a new job, have been at your current one all of your life, or are on sabbatical. Here’s why. In his ...

November 3, 2017

Bye, NYC

Living in New York City was a dream come true. While visiting for the first time during college, I instantly knew that it was a place where I wanted to live, work, and create (instead of attending grad school as I was planning). Something about the city excited me and challenged me in a way that I never had experienced before. The pace of the street traffic made me want to go, go, go and seeing hundreds, maybe thousands of people in such a small space looking like they all had somewhere important to go, made me want to have ...

September 26, 2017

Why I Quit My Day Job for 2 Months in Peru

Before you roll your eyes and say “yet another story about a millennial who was over her well-paying job and quit to backpack around the world and blog all about it and convince everyone else to do the same,” just hear me out. I was sitting in a team meeting at my job, a job that I loved and appreciated from the start. Together the team was problem-solving a frustrating, ongoing issue that account managers were experiencing with our network. During the time, we joked about the problem and work and maybe a TV show involving a talking dog, I don’t ...