Traveling Kelsey
I travel not to escape life, but to be sure that life will not escape me! Come join me!
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I couldn’t believe it when I went to complete my daily ritual of crossing off today’s date on my calendar in my cubicle and saw the number 100 staring back at me! I am officially 100 days away from July 12th, also known as the day that I will leave this country, and will embark on a very exciting, yet very long flight across the Pacific Ocean, through Tokyo and Singapore, and… Read More
On Airports I absolutely love airports. I think that they are the perfect microcosm, where you can observe the vast range of people and families on this earth. You see people at both their best—excited to head out on vacation with their sombreros already 3 margaritas deep at the airport bar– and at their worst—yelling at the lady behind the ticket counter trying to locate their luggage, which has allegedly found its… Read More
Because I Can When I made the decision to abandon the rat-race back in October and pick up my life to move to the opposite side of the globe, I had a vast array of responses to my announcement. Some people cheered me on, and congratulated me for making that decision. Some were envious– telling me that they wish that they had done the same, and that it was a great thing… Read More
My Story I didn’t simply wake up one morning and decide I wanted to travel the world. You could probably say that the stars seemed to align during the years leading up to my first flight across the globe in 2007. My parents had told my sister and I two years previous that they were getting divorced, something that for me came out of nowhere. I had just begun to really feel… Read More
As I write this post, I am in my summer apartment in Newark, Delaware, drinking my sleepy-time tea in preparation for bed and my first official day of work tomorrow starting at 8:00am for the Operations Analyst Development Program. I found myself browsing Facebook; staring in envy at all of my old high school acquaintances who had just graduated from their respective universities and were now off and backpacking in Europe and… Read More
1. Blog/Journal A man named Ibn Battuta once said, “Travelling—it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” Although I have no idea who this person actually is or was, I do believe him to be a genius. When you pack your bags and hop on a plane to distant lands and even more distant cultures, you instantly become a commodity to those who are too afraid to take that same… Read More
The hardest thing I have ever had to go through in all of my years of travel is readjusting to home life. I use the word “home” hesitantly, especially because the more I travel, the harder it is for me to comfortably define the word “home”. They always say that reverse culture shock, or the readjustment period required when returning home after a trip, is worse than the initial culture shock. I know this to… Read More
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