Hey, followers! I just wanted you all to know that I have a new site, which will require you to sign up for e-mails again. I know, I know. No…
Hi, friends & followers! Warm and sunny greetings from South Florida. Once again, it’s been a while since I last posted. I can attribute that to the productive, yet rather…
“Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.” — George Orwell, Burmese Days “I think we should go to Myanmar. Looks like we can enter over land too!” Maartje enthusiastically says…
Ahhhh. Can you feel that? There’s a buzz in the air. A new year is upon us and all of those clean slate, new beginnings clichés are flooding my news…
“The Philippines.” Unless you’re living under a rock, you have heard these two words more times than you can count throughout the past month. I started this blog post just…
If Jack Kerouac would have written On the Road while traveling through Indonesia, he undoubtedly would have called it On a Boat. Had I known how many boats were involved…
Hello again, world! I promised more good stuff from Indonesia, so wait no longer. I began this entry from an island called Lembongan, just south of Bali. As I finish,…
I know it’s been a while, but greetings from Indonesia, friends! Wow. There’s something I never thought I’d be typing. As I begin my first post from this side of…
“Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.” – Jack Kerouac As I sit in “my room” in Atlanta, Georgia to write this, I…
From one coastal town to another. That was our life the week Shira came to Colombia. We woke up on Playa Blanca, took motorbikes back to Cartagena, then caught a…
After a week of city livin’ and urban adventure it was time to say goodbye to our first Colombian love, Medellin. Leaving such an electric city was a bit sad,…
“A La Orden.” They shout it from behind their empanada carts, wheelbarrows of fruit and anything else that can be turned into a shop. It’s ingrained in my brain already.…
I promised a part 2, so here I am, a little over a week later. Crazy, I know. I’ve already surprised myself in 2013. Here’s to that. In Part I, I left…
Happy (naturally late) New Year, friends! We’re only half way into January and I’ve already posted a “2012 Year in Review” and am an entire sentence into my first post of 2013.…
As I logged into WordPress for the first time this year, I was greeted by a fun surprise. They automatically generated a year in review of The Adventures of Amelia,…
Since I knew you were all chomping at the bit to read about how life is going back in the ATL , I thought I’d just write a new post…
If you aren’t a Facebook friend of mine, or you don’t incessantly check Facebook every day, then you probably just read that title with much confusion. Your eyes aren’t playing…
As I sit here in the colorful, quiet courtyard of a hostel in Granada, Nicaragua, I can’t help but reminisce about the island life I left only days ago. I…
Once again, I’m late on updating the ole’ blog. I know, I know—I was supposed to start writing more frequently, as promised by my last post. This island just makes…
Wow. It’s been far too long since I last updated, huh? I would say I’ve just been super busy, but I feel like that’s only half true. Although I have…
As I write this particular piece, I am sitting at the multifaceted dive shop, where I spend most of my time these days. You dive from here, you eat here, you…
Eat, sleep, dive, drink, eat, dive, drink, repeat. That’s the life here on Utila. Oh, and how can I forget: Get destroyed by no-see-ums, or as I like to call…
“Ever been to Honduras before?” The guy next to me finally initiates the conversation. (Mom, Dad and Lindsay: I already know what you’re thinking here. Stop it.) I’ve never been…
If you’re reading this, odds are, you already know where it’s is going. When I first stumbled upon this whole “quit my job and travel” thing, all I felt was…
It was a gloomy, regular ole’ Friday when I decided to bite the bullet. Traffic was already horrendous and the rain was moving in quickly. I was rushing to knock…
An old friend of mine recently told me, “Emily, you used to be a lot of things.” As it so effortlessly rolled off her tongue, I burst into laughter. Throughout the next few…
Hotlanta. The A. ATL. A Town-Down. It goes by by a number of things. But for me? It’s just home. It’s the first real home I was able to create…
This is my blog, or my “bliggity blog,” as a great friend calls it. Read it, share it, be inspired by it — these are my hopes. I will post…
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