Every trip deserves the perfect playlist. For me it doesn’t get better than having a travel soundtrack. It’s like having familiar friends in my pocket to keep me company amidst my adventures. As the self-proclaimed “world’s biggest U2 fan” it was a great excuse to compile my favorites for my first international solo trip. And so the tradition began with Ireland back in 2013. Not all his movies have aged well but if John Hughes did one thing spectacularly well it was marry a m

Biking makes me feel most myself and when traveling it makes me feel at home wherever I am. One of my favorite pieces I’ve written for this blog is about how I fell in love with biking and the experience of biking in  eight of the ten countries I lived in while on Remote Year (see A Sort of Homecoming ).   If you told me back in 2018 on Remote Year that one day I would go on a biking trip with Mary, I wouldn't have believed you! Mary is Ohana: one of my constant companions th

I am a self-professed word nerd. I love words in all their forms: spoken, written, sung. It’s one of the reasons I’m such a reader and rabid music fan. I love their ability to take me places and make me feel deeper than I already do.  It’s also why I love languages. I love learning words in other languages, like calcetines (my favorite word to say in Spanish) or dentifricio (my favorite word to say in Italian) and learning how mundane things such as socks and toothpaste sound