Travel

I failed to mention several things on my last post that happened after I arrived in Rio, because most of it occurred past midnight technically making it the next day. It was about 11:30PM when my plane finally landed and it was also pouring rain. My heart sank, as bad...

Unfortunately, my room was right above the hotel's restaurant, so I was woken up bright and early by the kitchen staff setting up breakfast. On a positive note, I was the first to arrive at breakfast and therefore the first to arrive at the pool, so I was able to get...

My trip had really begun the day before, but nothing reportable had happened, as I had been traveling for almost twenty four hours to arrive at my ultimate destination of Porto de Galinhas. Porto, as it is affectionately called by the locals, is a sea-side village about one hour away...

This post was one of the very first travel stories I ever wrote back in 2010, when my love for exploring the world was just beginning to take shape. At the time, I was deep in the dreaming and planning stages of a trip to Brazil—researching, imagining, and falling in...

Update (2026) Sixteen years ago, I pressed “publish” on this post with no idea how much it would change my life. I was younger, wide-eyed, and braver than I realized — simply declaring that travel would always be part of my story. What began as a small travel blog has...