Tag: travel

May 10, 2020

New York 2019: Mum and me

When you have three other siblings, quality time with your remaining parent is something of a hard-fought commodity, and the older we got the more it seemed as though the only way I could get through the chatter of everyday living was by going on holidays with her. We'd done our first big Europe trip together; and now, in the fall of 2019, we were in New York.

March 10, 2020

Yangon 2020

I remember sitting on the beach all those months ago, learning about my roommate's faint familial connections to the Konbaung dynasty and Burma's last monarch, and not quite believing it; now here we were in front of the original Royal Lion Throne itself.

September 22, 2019

Da Nang: Eating my feelings

Here in Danang, my feelings are, quite literally, all over the place, and it began with souvlaki and chips on the beach.

September 5, 2019

Phnom Penh 2019

August 5, 2019

Luang Prabang 2019

Within an hour of landing in Laos, I find myself sitting in a tuktuk bumping up the red roads to the waterfalls, and doubting the wisdom of my spontaneity.

July 5, 2019

Da Nang: Snapshots

The sunsets stay with you: deep rose and fiery gold, reflected in all their flaming radiance on waters that, in that moment, shine as still and bright as your spirit.

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