Article originally published on Twoseventymag.com, March 2017 Have you ever felt a seed of doubt about your everyday life? A seed that grows into a burning desire to ditch the mundane and familiar, drop whatever you are doing and go where you’ve never been before? This feeling? It’s wanderlust: the…

What to learn from my most dreary, time-consuming, and way-more-costly-than-it-should-have-been travel mess-up I graduated university on December 14th, 2017. At the time of my graduation ceremony, while others were walking across the stage, listening to professors they don’t care about talking about lessons they won’t remember, I was on my…

Between two destinations there is a bus stop; a train station; a sidewalk. There’s the place where you’re napping at a train station beside the evening bustle, or looking at a map in some crossroads between farmlands, or refueling in the dark silence of twilight at some highway town pit-stop…

It’s cheaper to pitch a tent outside the admininistration building than pay for a dorm. — Originally published on Debt.com, Jan. 2018 Last semester, I didn’t just go to classes at Florida Atlantic University in South Florida. I lived there — in stairwells, on friend’s couches, even in a tent on the lawn out front of the administration building. Everywhere but in a dormitory. Why? Two…

How one man spent 65 days in Europe for less than the cost of a Starbucks run Article originally published on Debt.com, Nov. 2017 Ever heard of the book Europe on 5 Dollars a Day? It was written in 1957 by Arthur Frommer, and it’s become one of the best-known…

Travelling far and wide and alone leads you to many people and connections, but you have to break those to move on, and it hurts. To travel alone is not to be alone. You are in a state of mind that frees you from being hindered by how you thought…

Have some forethought when trying to camp in the Everglades in Florida and avoid my (multiple) mistakes Simply reading the words, “What do you mean there’s no tent poles?” are not apt enough to describe the despair of my last trip to the Everglades. There’s certain supplies and forethought you…