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March 3, 2016
If you haven’t read part one, you can do that here. After five days in Bagan, it was time to move on, so on my last day I grabbed a night bus heading east and arrived in Kalaw at 2:45 in the morning. Stepping off the bus, I felt truly cold for the first time […]
February 25, 2016
The beginning of this adventure. I left Omaha early on February 1. A winter storm almost kept me there for a few more days, but with a change of flights, I was off to Houston to Tokyo and to Bangkok after saying what was easily the toughest goodbye of my life to Alex at the airport. […]
February 19, 2016
A quick note on what I’m doing with my life right now (for those who are interested). I’m currently on week three of a three-month trip to Southeast Asia. Embarking on a long trip like this has been a dream of mine for years, and last fall I decided to make it happen. I left […]
March 15, 2015
Part 1 // Part 2 Every time we saw something beautiful in the north island and I took my camera out, Alex kept telling me, “just wait until you see the south island. You’re not even going to know what to do with yourself.” I didn’t quite know what to expect because the north island was still […]
March 10, 2015
This is part 2 of a 3-part series because I have too many damn photos. You can check out part 1 here. We arrived in rainy Auckland late at night after our three days in Sydney. We were exhausted and sunburned and ready for sleep. We were greeted by Alex’s friend Stefan, who, along with his girlfriend, […]
March 8, 2015
Alex has been talking about New Zealand since the very first day I met him, over three years ago. He had studied abroad there, and even though everyone raves about where they spent four months living and studying, Alex talked about his time abroad more than anyone else I knew. New Zealand is incredibly close to his heart, and […]