Travel Bugg

Tag: Brazil

  • The Art of Traveling Alone

    The Art of Traveling Alone

    “Are you traveling alone?” The elderly Asturian woman was dressed from neck to toe in black and held a wooden walking stick like mine. She seemed too fragile to be out in the forest by herself, much less chugging her way up this steep hill in northern Spain. “Yes, I am,” I said, wondering if…

  • Celebrating 3 years of living abroad

    Celebrating 3 years of living abroad

    Quitting my job and moving abroad It’s been three years since I quit my job in Austin and started working abroad. It’s been a wild and wonderful three years. I have lived in the south of Spain, Northern Spain and Minas Gerais, Brazil. I was able to visit 11 countries and 17 autonomous Spanish communities.…

  • Saudade and coming home

    Saudade and coming home

    Portugeuse has a brilliant word that can’t be translated. Saudade. It’s my favorite word in Portuguese and perfectly sums up my time in Brazil. 

  • Quarantining Alone in New Country

    Quarantining Alone in New Country

    Can you know a place when you cannot physically explore it? When you and everyone around you are locked within?

  • Carnaval in Brazil!

    Carnaval in Brazil!

    Carnaval in Brazil is an experience everyone should try at least twice in life.

  • Why you should move to Minas Gerais, Brazil

    Why you should move to Minas Gerais, Brazil

    Why you should move to a small city in Minas, Gerais, Brazil

  • Where to go in São Paulo, Brazil

    Where to go in São Paulo, Brazil

    Although many tourists skip São Paulo and head right to Rio, it’s a city that’s worth your time.

  • I’m moving to Brazil!

    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,…