Written on July 6, 2017 Today I return to my home in Honolulu, after three and a half months of traveling. That’s 105 days to be exact. I am so ready to go back! July 4 marked 3 years since I made the move across the Pacific and let my heart grow roots in a … More Hawai’i, I’m home.
A trip to the new African American Museum in Washington D.C. gave me a new appreciation for freedom. Though our nation was birthed in racial injustice while we proclaimed human freedom, those who were once hard pressed have pushed the burden of injustice off of their backs, raising themselves and the rest of us to a true human freedom and equality. … More Learning about freedom
If you enjoyed part 1, you’ll definitely eat up part 2. #6-9 all happened in the same week. Though this one week in my travels had the most blunders and thus was the most expensive, it was also the most exciting. It was spontaneous, risky, and amazing. I would totally do it again, but making … More Part 2 – My Top 10 Travel Blunders & How I fixed them
My parents raised me in a foreign country with the mantra, “Sometimes we pay for our lessons.” Linguistic and cultural barriers are just part of the landscape of international travel or living and as the visitor, it’s pretty likely we’ll goof up here or there. This perspective has helped me have grace on myself on … More Part 1 – My Top 10 Travel Blunders & How I Fixed Them
It’s a cloudy morning in Prague and I’m compelled to write a blog. It’s been 2 weeks since I published anything and that was 5 countries ago in Ireland. Since then, I’ve spent a night in England, a week in Italy, 5 nights in Switzerland, a night in Germany, and last night in Prague, Czech … More The distressed traveling blogger…
Life is about the in between spaces, the liminality or limbo where you’ve left some place but you haven’t arrived in the next place yet. It’s like being a traveler in transit. I’m doing a lot of transiting (and train-sitting) on my Europe Voyage, and there’s something surprisingly comforting about it. As a TCK, Third … More In Transit
When I handed the train conductor my ticket, he said, “Thank you, Love!” That’s when I knew I wasn’t in England any more. I’m skimming the coastline in northern Wales on my way to catch a ferry to Dublin. I’ll spend my next week touring Ireland with a group of InterVarsity students (American study-abroad students … More The English, part 1
Voyage (n/v). The word connotes a sense of adventure and bravery, setting out across vast oceans to explore the great unknown. It also invokes the idea of conquest, of subjecting, raping, pillaging. It is a word ripe with meaning both beautiful and profane. My ancestors are voyagers. I am a descendant of the people of … More Why I call it my Europe VOYAGE
If the daffodil had a face, it would have a fixed grin and rainbow-shaped eyes that gaze up at the warm sunshine without a worry in the world. Today I feel like that daffodil, but it wasn’t always so. I’ve been reflecting on my trip here 10 years ago when the climate of my soul was much different… … More Daffodils
Why am I traveling in Europe for 2 months? My Europe Voyage is a spiritual pilgrimage of following the Spirit as I listen to the stories of the people of the lands I cross. From March 23 to May 22 I’ll journey through much of Western Europe to discover my ethnic heritage. I long to … More About My Europe Voyage
crossing oceans bridging cultures 