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Hometown

Beech Grove, Indiana, USA

Location now

Los Angeles, CA, USA

Work published

Inside English, LA Miscellany, The Truth About the Fact, Nuvo Newsweekly, The Andersbach Review, Experimental Candy, Silent Voices

Travel philosophy

Live to regret the things you've done, not the things you haven't done.

Craziest place

Depends on your definition of crazy. Hong Kong was definitely the most chaotic place I've ever visited.

Bizarre experience

Following my Balinese friend as we climbed a mountain and he hacked a path through the jungle so that we could visit his grandparents which still lived in their car-inaccessible tribal home among groves of coffee and clove trees, and who then assumed I was to be his new wife and brought out the dowry to show me after chasing down a chicken to kill it for dinner.

Advice

Don't overplan.

Dream destination

There are so many! I have been lots of great places I would to which I would like to return, as well as new places I would still like to experience. Would like to see China, Japan, Costa Rica, Vietnam, Morocco, Spain, Kenya, Egypt, many places in South America.

Traveled before

Hong Kong, Thailand, Malaysia, Bali, Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Netherlands, Belgium, Hungary, Czech Republic, England, Luxembourg, Italy, Canada, Domican Republic, Bahamas, Mexico, Cozumel

Going next

Back to Thailand? Spain?