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Uncover the US: Northern Colorado
Featuring Denver, Estes Park, Fort Collins and Boulder, Colorado
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Best bookshops around the world
My favorite bookshops around the world It doesn’t matter where I go in the world, if there’s a bookstore, I’m going to stop and browse. Over the years, I’ve found a few shops that keep me coming back. From stores found in large European capitals to those in tiny Texas towns, every shop holds a…
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I’m moving to Brazil!
I am learning to get better at plans. Mainly letting go of them and allowing them to fail and change. Since my trip to Morocco in April 2018, I had a fixated goal. I would move to an Arabic-speaking country in the Middle East and teach English at a school there. I spent months researching,…
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Immigrants make America great
Everyone — whether we realize it or not — knows an immigrant. It could be the woman who served you drinks in the restaurant, the man who files your insurance claims, your child’s best friend in elementary school, a gardener or doctor who you pass on your way to work. And all of us in the…
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Spanish Holidays and Festivals
January New Years Eve (All Spain) New Years Eve is spent with family and friends. Families will have a meal together and then wait for the countdown until midnight. At midnight, Spainards have a tradition of eating 12 grapes, one for every stroke of the clock. I’m not 100% where this tradition comes from, however…
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Best National Parks in Spain
This is partly a love letter to Spanish national parks and mostly an appreciation post for two of my favorite Spaniards and hiking buddies, Noelia and José. We all randomly met on a guided hike in Toledo when I first moved to Spain, and they ended up consistently showing up in my life. Noelia went…
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Lessons from the Camino Primitivo
I feel this ancient, holy road has been a part of my life since I set out from Santander on Halloween Eve. Perhaps it’s been longer, when I read about the Way of St. James in a children’s book in the library at Mildred Elementary School. These days, I’m cynical about destiny, but sitting in…
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On coming home, again
I have changed my life’s trajectory several times over the past 10 years. I’ve been a college admissions adviser, a ticket booth operator, a family-owned farm employee, a fruit and veggie factory worker, a radio intern, a content producer for newspapers, a nonprofit children’s counselor, a photojournalist, a freelance magazine writer, an EFL educator and…
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Spain, te quiero
I’ll be processing my two years in Spain for the rest of my life. I can’t adequately express the gratitude I feel toward this country or its people. For now, I’ll share some self-indulgent photos showcasing the 17 autonomous communities I visited. This only scratches the surface of what the Iberian Peninsula has to offer,…
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Why I chose a tiny house
People often ask why I chose to live in a tiny home or wanted to build one. I never have much of a concrete answer. I wasn’t a fan of the HGTV series my parents are always watching. I didn’t know anyone who had done it. I wasn’t a good environmentalist. I barely recycled. However,…
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What to do in Tbilisi, Georgia
Tbilisi is one of my favorite cities in that gray area between Europe and Asia. It has a welcoming, up-and-coming vibe that reflects youth culture without being too pretentious about it. People are cool, without trying too hard. Locals work hard and salaries are less than other countries in Europe. You can see the continued…
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One day in Ankara, Turkey
From Istanbul, my friends put me on one of the cushy buses that goes across the country so I could see Erzem, a friend I had met while working in Spain. Erzem’s family is from a small town near the border with Bulgaria, but she had been living in the country’s capital for the past…
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