Tag: Brazil
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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…
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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.…
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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.
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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?
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Carnaval in Brazil!
Carnaval in Brazil is an experience everyone should try at least twice in life.
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Why you should move to Minas Gerais, Brazil
Why you should move to a small city in Minas, Gerais, Brazil
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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.
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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,…