Travel costs time and money.  What are you getting in return?  Five priceless things, if you ask me. *Pictures are from Istanbul, Turkey.   1.   Confidence. Travel has challenged me in a number of ways. I’ve had to become proficient at land […]Read More ›

When I started this trip 100 days ago, I believed that I was embarking on a truth-seeking journey. There were two things that made me view my trip in this way. The fırst was my writıng instructor at the University […]Read More ›

I was in a bad mood when I arrived in Athens. Why? I was tired from the travel. You may be thinking, “STFU” or “cry me a river,” but one thing I can say, with honesty, is that travel is […]Read More ›

On May 7th, I left Bucharest on an overnight train to Sofia, Bulgaria. I arrived in Sofia at 7 a.m. on May 8 (two hours later than expected). Again, this is a difference between eastern and western Europe. In France, […]Read More ›

In the last 36 hours, Bucharest, Romania grew on me more and more. The day after my epic Pizza Hut experience, I took a tour of the Parliament Building. As I alluded to in the last entry, it is the […]Read More ›