When I decided to start a website, blog, journal, whatever you want to call it I envisioned writing about anything and everything that interested me. Lately, since I’ve been spending all my time traveling alone (often anxious) that has been the bulk of my writing, but eventually I will re-enter the workforce and hope to…

Today I tackled my first time driving on the left side of the road for an extended time period in Western Australia. It’s certainly a learning process and a bit disorienting having everything on the other side of the car. Everything is backwards from what I’m used to. I instinctively reach over my left shoulder…

Turns out it’s not that easy to visit the tallest mountain on earth. Sagarmatha AKA Mt. Everest (but you should call it Sagarmatha or Chomolungma – the Tibetan name) stands at just over 29,000 feet and grows taller every year. That’s twice as tall as Mt Whitney the tallest mountain in the lower 48 and…

Sadly it is looking like I won’t be able to fit in all of my planned Nepal trek. I am two days behind schedule because of the heinous travel situation to get to the start of the trek and it doesn’t seem possible to make up that time. I think that became official this morning…

“I’m scared.” That phrase has helped me in recent months and here I am afraid again. I’ve already written about many of the things I’m afraid of and you can read all about that in an earlier post. To summarize, I’m mostly afraid of the unknown. My brain is extra active in these situations and…

I wrote most of this a few months ago in Oregon while on my road trip and like some other posts never actually posted it for whatever reason. On my personal website / journal that very few people even see. I’m trying to get over that even just for me to look back on in…