Welcome to my newest series, The Wanderland Guide to Travel Planning. This is the first post in a multi-part series! . Travel planning. It drives me crazy, and I mean that in both that passionate, can’t-get-enough-of-it kind of way as well as that miserable, can’t-stop-crying-tears-of-frustration kind of way. Lately, I’ve received an uptick in requests to…

Am I the only one that feels like pre-trip daydreaming is one of the best parts of a travel? You guys might remember that last fall, I signed up for Trover and used it to help me decide whether Central America or Southeast Asia would be my next stop. (Non spoiler alert! Central ‘Merica won.) For…

Please Note: I have received information and materials from McNeil Consumer Healthcare, Division of McNEIL-PPC, Inc., the makers of TYLENOL®. The opinions stated are my own. This is a sponsored post. . For my third travelversary, I tallied up all the different beds I’d slept in over the past year – seventy-one various beds, plus four…

Last year when I rolled out my plans for 2014, I said that I wanted to build a life that involved “roughly a third of the year in the US with friends and family, a third of the year in my home away from home of Southeast Asia, and about a third actively exploring new places.”…

By the time you read this, I’ll be impatiently waiting in line at immigration in London, clutching the passport I’m so excited to put back into play after four and a half months stateside. This trip kind of crept up on me, and while I’ve dropped hints about where I’m headed I haven’t given you a…

I didn’t do it on purpose, but recently I sat down and realized that 2014 was pretty much penciled in. And so I figured I’d post a little preview of what’s ahead! Based on the self reflection I’ve been doing lately and the fact that I don’t see my nomadic lifestyle coming to a halt anytime…