A collection of stories about travel, life abroad, grief, language barriers, and mishaps.
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Dating in Bangkok and Portugal: From Salsa to Guacamole
When friends back in Asia ask me what the dating scene is like in Portugal, I don’t know what to say. Fine? Active? Normal? It’s not that I don’t see a difference between dates in Bangkok and dates in Porto–I definitely do. It’s more that I didn’t know how to describe it. Then a friend posted… Read more
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Traveling to Embrace Loss
When people asked why I was going to Germany for five days in late November, I had a few standard replies: I’m going to see where I used to live; I just want to go to a country where I speak the language; cheap tickets. I only told a select few the truth: I was going… Read more
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