Directionally Accurate

A blog about whatever piques my curiosity… my thoughts might not be exactly correct, but they're likely "directionally accurate"

  • On Saying Goodbye (for now) to Travel

    Reverse culture shock is a term I first heard before studying abroad in Australia. The shock not of experiencing a new place, but of inevitably returning home. The unexpected feeling that going back to a place you know can be as much, or more, of a shock than traveling somewhere new. For me, travel is…

  • On University Endowments 101

    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…

  • On The Other Side of the Road (and World)

    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…

  • On Top of the World

    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…

  • On Sticking to the Plan

    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…

  • On Fear (Part 2)

    “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…

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