Wanderlust

This page is a work in progress – it will be updated often with my favorite travel resources and inspiration.

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In the beginning of 2014, I quit my job so that I could go on an extended solo trip around the world. I went to 15 countries on 4 continents. The experiences changed my life. When I returned I went on a 3 month road trip through the USA and visited 27 states and 16 National Parks. To explore my posts from these trips, click here. To explore my previous travel posts, click here.

My favorite personal travelogues are:
MS Expedition
Hawaii Part 1 – Our Kauai cottage, and those heavenly sunrises
Uluru and the Australian Outback
Songkran

My travel photos:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/chowmeyow/collections/72157624816215339/

My favorite travel writing:
Without Reservations: The Travels of an Independent Woman by Alice Steinbach
The Art of Pilgrimage: The Seeker’s Guide to Making Travel Sacred by Phil Cousineau
Blue Highways by William Least-Heat Moon
Charles Kuralt’s America by Charles Kuralt
Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe by Bill Bryson
In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson

Favorite travel blogs & sites:
Kayak
Airbnb
Huffington Post Travel
Rick Steves
Roadtrippers
Atlas Obscura

Favorite tour company: gAdventures

Quotes that make me want to pack my suitcase:

“We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.” – Charles Bukowski

“To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.” – Bill Bryson

“Decisions are a way of defining ourselves. There comes a time in life when there is nothing else to do but go your own way. Where you are headed there are no trails, no paths, just your own instincts.” – Sergio Bambaren

“I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.” – Albert Einstein

“The voice said you haven’t a world of time left to do all those things you promised yourself you’d do someday. For now, your lungs are still strong enough to let you walk through a mountain meadow and your legs will still support you in the current of a trout stream. You have plenty of curiosity left, and energy and love of life. You have at least one good long trip in you yet. If that’s what you really want, you’d better be about it.” – Charles Kuralt

2 comments

  1. Hi Emily, I just started reading your blog today and hope to catch up on it. I work with your mother at the Library and she told me all about your trip which sounds fantastic. I’v always wanted to (and still plan on it) do a trip like this and I hope reading about your adventures will give me even more insperation to set out on my own!

    1. Hi Jesse! I hope that it does inspire you! If you have any questions or want any thoughts/advice as you’re pondering your own trip please reach out! (Although the best advice I have is pretty simple: do it!!!) :)

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