“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 FrommerBefore we ported in Ghana on Thursday, our Global Studies professor assigned us an adage to analyze during our four-day travel weekend. Our … Continue reading Worth More Than Gold

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

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

“I am embarking on a journey around the world. I want to explore the globe and put meaning to names on the map. Wake up in a different country every week and explore with my own two feet. Make the world my classroom and its people my teachers. Get lost in foreign countries and find … Continue reading A Traveler’s Manifesto

“May you never be afraid to go out into the deep, for it is here you will grow beyond what you see.” -- Morgan Harper Nichols I fell in love with quotes at a very young age. I never got into young children series, but instead went straight into F. Scott Fitzgerald, Stephen King and … Continue reading My Own May Flowers

I was asked a couple weeks ago why I haven’t written or posted a blog in months, and as I sat back and thought about that question, I knew it was because I am inspired by nothing around me anymore. I have either lost the things that inspired me so deeply or I have become … Continue reading 5 Things That Are Hard To Accept