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The bulk of my iTunes playlists revolve around working out.  The rest are travel related, and have been incredibly useful on the road, especially my Sleep/Yoga mix.  I can fall asleep pretty much anywhere, but part of that has to do with listening to Air and Sigur Rós. Next up, finishing #94.  I just need [...]

I’m finally done with #18, and I feel like I’ve just finished the sixth grade.  Brilliant!  When I first attempted this project in 2007, I had only completed North America, South America, and Europe.  I dedicated a little more time to the project in 2008, by actually visiting some of the countries.  ;) In all [...]

I’m in a habit of chopping all my hair off about every 2 years.  It’s usually a fall or winter thing, and I try to wait until my hair is long enough to donate to Locks of Love. So after I got back to the States from traveling in Europe/Morocco at the end of November [...]

You wouldn’t believe how easy it is to not go to the same restaurant more than once for one month while traveling!  Except for my time in Naxos, Greece (where I may or may not have gone to the same gyro stand and Mexican restaurant every day), I think I did fairly well at mixing [...]

I had the amazing opportunity to see REM and Kaiser Chiefs for FREE while I was in Athens in October. MTV was launching a MTV Greece channel, so they sponsored the free concert. I found out about it from my hostel, so most of the hostel headed down to the stadium and the venue was [...]

After traveling for nine months, public transport is now the norm for me. My favorite cities for public transit are more modern and touristy: Tokyo, Madrid and Barcelona. However, my most memorable experiences with public transport are in Morocco. Nowhere else have I seen sheep put in the luggage compartments and the suitcases on top [...]

My first experience traveling abroad was to France in 2006 (when I officially got the travel bug). Since then, I’ve wanted to go back and see more of Europe. However, with the euro and dollar exchange rate at $1.60 this summer, I decided to stick to the outer edges of the EU that don’t use [...]

I started the 52 Books in 52 Weeks Book Project in July of 2007, and while I did miss a few weeks here and there, I’m considering it complete! What I really enjoyed about participating in this challenge is that it reminds you to keep reading. Sometimes when life gets busy you forget to pick [...]

Traveling is so much more memorable when you’ve kept a travel journal. I use the little Moleskine Small Cahier Journal (Set of 3) as journals. They’re small enough to carry in your purse, but still legible, and the tan ones don’t get mixed up with your passport like the black ones. Sometimes I get a [...]

I’ve pretty much been walking to the grocery store since I started traveling. ;) I probably did most of my international grocery shopping in New Zealand and Greece though. New Zealand was an easy country to carry around a food bag and actually cook in the evenings, while in Greece I was buying more snack [...]