Deliciously Dangerous Food to Eat in Budapest
When I planned my trip to Budapest, I didn’t spend a lot of time thinking about the food. I was focused on the spas, the ruin bars, the architecture. No one really talks about what to eat…
9 Questions to Ask Travelers Instead of “Where are you from?”
About a week into my solo trip through Europe last year, I was exhausted from meeting fellow travelers. I wasn’t tired of them – I love new people! – but rather the predictable routine of questions we’d…
12 Tips on How to Travel like a Local
A hip hop jazz jam session on a boat on the Danube. A brand new craft beer pub hidden in the passages of Novi Sad. A restaurant you can only enter by giving the secret password and…
Am I Stupid because I’m NOT Scared to Travel?
The longer I blog and the further I travel, the more I get involved in the digital communities that support weirdos travelers like me. It’s a great way to share tips and have travel discussions with like-minded…
How To Spend 48 Hours in Kiev
I arrived in Kiev on a cold, rainy day at the end of February. Over the next three months, I watched as last flurries of snow tease at the end of winter, the lilacs burst out to…
My Favorite Craft Cocktail Bars in Kiev
I have a new updated list of the best bars in Kiev, including the best cocktail bars. Where I am greatly influences what I choose to drink. In the center of hipster Brooklyn it was craft beer…
What to Do when You Visit Lviv, Ukraine’s Secret Gem
Step one. Get to Lviv. I mean that’s it, really. From then on you’re set. The good times will just kind of happen to you. But I understand, you didn’t come here for something so simple. You…
10 Reasons Why Now is the Time to Visit Ukraine
You know that feeling, that sort of nervous fluttery anticipation you get when you book a one-way plane ticket to a country you’ve never been to, never really thought about too much actually, and commit to spending…
My Top Ten Experiences in Cuba
Traveling in Cuba wasn’t all introspection about tourism and musing on economics – no, we definitely had a lot of fun on our people-to-people tour as well. We crammed a lot in our eight brief days on the island,…
Money, Power, and Capitalism in Cuba
Our tour bus bounced through the streets of a small Cuban city, and our national guide craned his neck to look out the window. “I can tell you,” he said, “just by looking at the houses, who…
