“Even in the stagnant waters, she is learning day by day: though it takes awhile to see, she is growing while she waits.” — Morgan Harper Nichols Eight months ago, I sat in the San Diego International Airport with tears streaming down my face and words flowing effortlessly as I wrote my goodbye to a … Continue reading Road to Inspiration
Author: Jordyn Lindeman
A college student from a small town in Indiana currently traveling the globe while surviving solely on peanut butter and jelly and good coffee.
No Place Like Home
I always wondered what has to transpire, or inspire, for a person to refer to a place as a home. I refer to Warsaw, Indiana as a home because that is where I was raised, where my family is centered, and where I spent eighteen years building every aspect of my life and of myself. … Continue reading No Place Like Home
In The Dark
To be honest, there is an endless list of topics in my mind that I feel compelled to write about after my travels in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam throughout the last five days. I could write about how incredible it was that my mom traveled over twenty-four hours to come visit me or I … Continue reading In The Dark
Our Days
“Sometimes you find yourself in the middle of nowhere, and sometimes in the middle of nowhere you find yourself.” -- Unknown One of the most incredible things in life are the specific moments we have engraved in our minds during the times we were the happiest. My freshman year of college, walking home from class … Continue reading Our Days
Worth More Than Gold
“At its best, travel should challenge our preconceptions and most cherished views, cause us to rethink our assumptions, shake us a bit and make us broader minded and more understanding.” — Arthur Frommer Before we ported in Ghana on Thursday, our Global Studies professor assigned us an adage to analyze during our four-day travel weekend. … Continue reading Worth More Than Gold
What In The World
Leave nothing but footprints, kill nothing but time. When I was planning out how I wanted to organize my blog to correlate with my travels, I initially wanted to write from country to country, sharing my experiences, what beautiful places, people and objects I got to see and giving a quick recap on how I … Continue reading What In The World
Out Of The Comfort Zone
The MV World Odyssey has officially sailed over 1,470 nautical miles from our embarkation point in Hamburg, Germany to our first, officially port here in Barcelona, Spain! After sailing for the past six days, at a nice, slow pace of fourteen miles per hour, I have had a lot of time to reflect on my … Continue reading Out Of The Comfort Zone
