Coming home: Adjusting when long-term travel is no longer practical

Rewind time six months and I would've been telling you all about my plan to live abroad and explore Europe for at least a year. My goals were lofty: Learn how to ski on Bohemian slopes, backpack through the Balkans, brewery hop in Belgium. Instead, it's edging on Spring and I've been unexpectedly back home in New Jersey for …

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Experience Amsterdam low-key in a day

By the time I arrived in Amsterdam Central Station last November, it was already dark outside. Bulky luggage in tow, I crossed the station and easily found the free water taxi (yes, FREE!) to cross the channel to my modern hostel in Noord. I felt pretty lame without carting a bicycle though, TBH. When I …

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