How does one summarize four months of travel in a ten minute read? I had no idea how to start. About four months ago I set off with a backpack and two friend...

Not everything is fun and games. I cannot tell exactly where I heard this phrase - perhaps it was told to me by my mother or I read it in a book - but when I...

With a little under 3 weeks left to the trip, I find myself with a lot of reflections. On a daily basis, I make comparisons between what I’ve seen and what I...

The three month benchmark is in two days. These days I catch myself thinking of familiar things often: home, the smiles of my family, back-roads that would b...

Last week, the trip duration surpassed the two month marker. It’s crazy to look back at it now and know traveled through four countries and am currently expl...

One month. That was the first thought that popped into my head on September 6th. It was 4:30am. Darkness shrouded the room, which was bare except for one bed...

Week 6 Peru is a world of its own. From the sunny beaches in the north to the snowy peaks of the Andes mountains in the center to the loud and misty capital ...

Going on four weeks now I have become attuned to the hum and ways of daily life here. From my observations I have learned a few things: If getting into a tax...

Bogotá, Colombia This journey started in the sprawling and noisy capital of Colombia: Bogotá. I remember groggily getting into the taxicab, exhausted from lo...

July 27th Our day started at 5:30am. We crawled out of bed, put on clothing we’d been wearing for more than a few days, strapped on our packs and quietly lef...

Two weeks in. That was my first thought this morning when I awoke at 6am. The room was dark in our small hostel room in Quito, Ecuador. I forced myself out o...