When Dan and I first arrived in Trondheim a few weeks ago, it was cold. Like, really cold. Like, the end of July and 50 degrees out. Not only that, but it rained every single day. It was a little alarming, but I grew to accept that this new home of mine would simply always be ...
70 Countries Later, I Choose Norway
Just about exactly one year ago, I wrote a post titled I Choose Travel. At the time, I was enrolled in a master’s program at Aarhus University in Denmark, which was due to start in a couple of weeks. But I had just realized that I had chosen to study for all of the wrong reasons, ...
Croatia, Why So Boring?
It was me, Croatia, not you. I had been obsessed with visiting Croatia for a weirdly long time. Weird because it’s in Europe so it really shouldn’t have taken me so long to get there. But it did. The obsession started when I was maybe ten years old and visiting Prague with my ...
Breaking into Buzludzha Monument
After months of traveling through Russia and Eastern Europe, I figured I had seen my fair share of Soviet Ghosts. And then I arrived in Bulgaria. If Communist architecture is your thing - and isn't it everybody's thing? - then Bulgaria is your place. I constantly found myself ...
Veliko Taronovo, Bulgaria: What to See & Why to Go
People often ask me what my favorite country to visit has been, and I never quite know what to say. There are so many wonderful places in the world! A question that I sadly find much easier is about my least favorite country. The answer? Bulgaria. I visited Bulgaria’s coast at ...