“How much did it cost you to travel the world for 2 years?” — “How did you afford to travel the world for so long?” — Those are just 2 of the questions I have received over and over since I started this trip and even more so now that I have finished my…
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Apr
03
How much did it cost me to travel the world for 2 years?
Mar
26
Random statistics from a 2 year backpacking trip around the world.
At the start of my trip around the world I told my self I would keep track of many random statistics, but after a few weeks it honestly become tedious and I stopped keeping track of most of them. The only things I did keep track during the entire trip were how many beds I…
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Mar
20
The last goodbye.
Goodbye… a word that when I backpacked around the world become all too common in my vocabulary. Saying goodbye was something that with time I got used to saying, because the circumstances backpacking the world put me in. I met people from all over the world and knew that at some point I would have to say goodbye to them. Some were people I met for a moment in…
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Mar
01
2 years into my “BREAKAWAY” & I’m going home, but it’s not over.
I’ve been starring at this blank screen for a while now… and have no idea what to write. I thought I did, but honestly… I just don’t and what’s crazy is you may be reading this while I am on my flight home or already home… who knows. Anyway I’m currently in Dubai Airport and…
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Feb
20
Why hasn’t “The Revolution Museum” in Tahrir Sq. made the news?
It was already 1am and we were at a cafe drinking tea and playing dominoes… the usual night out in Cairo. While we were playing we saw huge trucks transporting the big blocks that are used to block off the streets around Tahrir Sq. to keep protesters away from important government buildings. None of us had…
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Jan
31
What if the walls at Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum could speak?
On April 17, 1975 the Khmer Rouge Regime took over Phnom Penh (the capital of Cambodia) and implemented a new way of life for the people of Cambodia. This new way of life meant death for more than three million Cambodians. The new regime wanted a peasant dominated society untainted by anything that had come…
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