Posts Tagged ‘America’

My mind finally smells summer.
I’ve been away from Indiana for the past two summers and away from Wabash during the summertime since I moved away ten years ago. Having spent the majority of my childhood outside, I’ve been unknowingly pining for the familiar olfactory triggers, which I still can’t define well: aromatic greens of unknown [...]

Today’s documentation of the travel and blogging world is a little slim but can plunge you into a lotta deep thought.
The Four Burners and Success
Who really has a balanced life? I’d like to think that overall the way I conduct myself on a year-long basis levels out between travel and home, physicality and leisure, hermitville [...]

Traveling creates a lifestyle of constant challenges, which then facilitate self-discovery and, in turn, happiness. This week, I report from my post alone in northern Indiana to ask you: how would you challenge yourself with a home experiment that would simulate the effects of travel?

Notes from this week’s Video of the Week:

I continue to get [...]

After one successful week of relative seclusion in northern Indiana, I’ve got some thoughts to share — musings, if you will. Your feedback is strongly encouraged.

Haven’t seen one of these in a while, huh? A video of the week or a webcam special. I finally got my act together! Enjoy.

Notes from this week’s video:

ProjectExplorer.org is in post-production stateside after a fantastic filming session in Mexico.
I’m moving out of my parent’s house for a month for some seclusion in my hometown.
I [...]

Visiting Chicago for me is like visiting the secret garden in the back yard I never realized was so damn cool. Here are some shots from a great trip in November that going along nicely with my Ten Great Ideas for Chicago.
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Hope this makes for excellent coffee shop reading material this Sunday morning. Gooooo travel!
We’re #1! No, really!
Even though our tourism numbers are going down the pooper because of the economic downward “flush,” we still managed to beat out countries like New Zealand and Japan in the Country Brand Index, which is “an online survey of [...]

I welcome you to a new monthly series on Nomadderwhere, one which highlights the incredible trips one could take in that current month – thanks to a vibrant book called Journeys of a Lifetime by National Geographic. Every month I will pick out a couple adventures from each section in the book in order to [...]

Spiders with glowing orange backs crawling inches from my nose, building forts across the rock ledge where I sprawled to overlook a 30-foot waterfall. A canopy of greens I’d never see at home shading from a sun that could surely turn me crispy. One rock thrown over the edge to crash dramatically on the mammoth [...]

Just had to share this.
Taken at the Indianapolis Airport before leaving on the trip.

A torrential downpour washed Dallas clean on the day of our departure. It wasn’t the most comforting story to see on a big flight day when the television discussed the Air France flight lost in the abyss of the Atlantic Ocean. But we took comfort in the odds that a similar accident of lightning striking [...]

Dallas is quite a sprawling metropolis, and at her outskirts is a little place some call Heaven…others call Lewisville. When Carly brought us into view of this nook of Texas, I was enthralled by the George Jetson highways soaring above us, the rhythm of strip malls and restaurants lining all roads, and the amount of [...]

From my spot in seat 12D on that much-awaited flight out, I took a bird’s-eye-view of Indianapolis and said “sayonara”; I was heading off to be part of the COOLEST INTERNSHIP ON THE PLANET!
Pumped. I was so pumped to be traveling again, especially towards an opportunity that could open up mounds of possibilities down the [...]

The following rant was produced during a final purging session in the Honolulu airport. These are quite raw thoughts from a mind coming down from a solo RTW at a very early and confused age…
It’s been far too easy to accept being around people I know, spending money that’s not mine in amounts unjustified, sleeping on [...]

I left Tokyo in the evening of November 17th…and then I arrived on the morning of November 17th after flying halfway across the world’s most expansive ocean. Time travel can really trip you out, if you allow those thoughts to infiltrate your over-stimulated senses. I landed and immediately started making phone calls, thanks to the [...]

The Lager of the Netherlands washes the fresh-made guacamole down my hungry trap as a Hoosier sunset falls on my face one last time. I embark tomorrow at noon thirty for the coolest experience of my life. Soon, I’ll see my brother and his wife one last time pre-parenthood and make one last attempt to [...]

I feel incredibly privileged to be a featured person in the Indianapolis Star. After an hour long interview and photo shoot a couple months ago, this article brought me great joy with its final materialization on Sunday, also race day in Indianapolis.

I was sitting in a lawn chair, cold beer perched in my camera-case-turned-koozie, hearing [...]

Guacamole of Holiness! We’re leaving in the wink of a moment for the World Traveler Internship. I keep thinking back to the big phone call and that visceral awareness I had of this imminent journey. Today, it’s but an idea that I cannot grasp. I keep saying this, but it’s impossible to fathom how cool [...]

Jenn Vargas, in a much appreciated move to satiate my travel reading desires, sent me an article I spent much time reading to the last period. It’s about traveling on a budget that above all improves the traveler’s experience through connections and relationships with places, people, and purposes.

One of the biggest expenses for a traveler [...]

From ‘04 to ‘08, I was fortunate enough to have at my disposal (and for free, might I add) one of the nation’s leading student newspapers. Though these papers litter the IU campus daily, left under desks in Ballantine Hall and sometimes coating atrium floors with their glossy weekend section, a large portion of the [...]