Roadtrippin’ and Rejoining the Workforce

Midway into my fourth week of a new job, I've realized quite a few things about myself and, what it is exactly, that irks me about the 9-5 grind. It only took about 20 paper cuts, cotton mouth and a whirlwind road trip with my boyfriend to Washington, D.C. this past weekend to help me figure out what I already knew while staring at my longtail boat background on my office computer every day.

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Meeting an Unconventional Community

Last Saturday, after many missed opportunities, I spent the evening at Chris Guillebeau's New Haven, Conn. meet-up for the Unconventional Book Tour. The evening was full of goodies and spirited conversation about living a remarkable life on your terms while doing good for the world.

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Introducing ‘A Look Back’ Series

To get me writing and you all reading again, I'm going to start to feature a new series called, "A Look Back," highlighting the things I never took an opportunity to write about while abroad.

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SILWTW Featured on GO! Overseas

She's in Love with the World is one of GO! Overseas Top 10 Travel Blogs on the web and this week's featured interview on their site. Come check it out!

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What I’ve Been Reading on the Road

Nothing is a better cure for a never-ending bus trip or lazy night in the hostel common room than a good book.

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Missing the Comforts of Home

It’s a lot easier said than done to completely rid yourself of the things you take for granted back home and I’m finding as more time elapses on my journey, the more I long for the little things and to revisit the worn pages of the previous chapters I once enjoyed.

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Could Technology End Our Desire to Travel?

According to a recent article published in the English newspaper, The Telegraph, the travel industry could be in trouble as technology evolves. Findings from a recent study state that more children will be less apt to travel in the real world because it can so easily be accomplished in a virtual world. The findings come from a study commissioned by travel firm LastMinute.com and the Future Foundation titled “The Future of Free Time,” which followed trends in Japan.

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Red Shirts and Wet Shirts: A Thai New Year

Songkran is a three-day holiday from April 13-15. Its most obvious celebration — aside from visiting wats, paying respect to the family and cleansing the Buddha — is the throwing of water. It has since evolved into one of the biggest water fights in the world. People line the streets armed with Super Soakers, garden hoses and buckets of clay to smear on faces of passersby. It's been really interesting to see how the holidaymakers and the protesters have interacted.

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Ch-Ch-Changes [in Travel Plans]

I’ve met a lot of people on the road doing some pretty awesome things — teaching English, running their own businesses, blogging, volunteering — and realized I really wanted to be one of them. So I’ve chosen to stay in Bangkok for the time being to work toward that goal.

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Taking the Leap when You’re Afraid to Jump

Every so often I’ll get an e-mail from someone (usually an old friend I’ve lost touch with who stumbles across my blog through Facebook) asking me what I'm doing and how I'm doing it. For all the questions they have for me, I have one simple one for them.

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