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Hometown

Littleton, CO, USA

Location now

Nutley, NJ, USA

Work published

This is my first time (of hopefully many to come!) writing about travel for anyone but myself

Travel philosophy

Just jump, everything else will work itself out

Craziest place

A Maasai village in Kenya at the height of the African summer

Bizarre experience

In Florence, a man once cornered me and told me in English that he wanted to eat my eyeballs. I think he meant something between "your eyes are pretty" and "I could eat you up," but something went horribly, horribly wrong in translation

Advice

To not spend so much time planning - the best times I've had are those when I've booked the least and had the freedom to make or change plans on a whim

Dream destination

I'm on a ruins kick - I want to travel to Mexico to see Chichen Itza, Peru to see Machu Picchu, and Egypt to see the pyramids

Traveled before

I've done a 3 week cross-country road trip, spent 6 months living abroad in Florence, Italy where I visited Rome, Venice, Paris, London, and Switzerland, explored the beaches in the Bahamas, safaried in Kenya and Tanzania, had my appendix removed in Spain, and most recently spent a few months backpacking Australia

Going next

Hopefully the UK in the fall to stay with friends in London