Meeting Myself

  I'm leaving tomorrow for a three-week solo trip through Western Europe. I'd be lying right now if I said I wasn't scared. In general, I've been feeling raw lately. The passing of my grandmother, leaving my job of almost two years, not to mention Mercury in gatorade. I'm just going through it, going through …

Oaklandic

I've recently accepted the position of barista at the esteemed Blue Bottle Coffee Company. I am now officially too hipster to exist. I need to go out and buy a beanie. And grow a mustache. And probably wear at least seven bow-ties at any given point. And I'll also now be speaking about mouth-feel and …

Moving Words

PUN PUN PUN PUN Someday I'll be a mature "adult" writer and let my jokes speak for themselves. But that is not this day. This day I tell you about my move to Oakland! Part 1- The Journey (External Edition) Sunday I moved from Palo Alto to Oakland. It started out with me riding my …

California, Dudes

Been here about a month and a half, and IT. HASN'T. RAINED. ONCE. Just a gentle reminder that I'm now living in a desert. My whole life I had dreams of moving everywhere, running across the continent, doing BIG things, leading a BIG life. And wouldn't you know it? I find myself both accomplishing those …

Dogs of Peru

I promised blogposts from my travels, and blogposts from my travels you shall have. You know when you travel and for a while you forget you've gone somewhere new until you hit that one detail that shakes you fundamentally? If not, it exists, trust me. In Peru, that detail wasn't the fact that you can't …

Peru-ving My Worth

In case you haven't noticed all of my obnoxious Facebook posts, I am heading out to Peru tomorrow with my wonderful roommate (who I do not deserve in the slightest). I am very excited and very nervous and very excited. I have had the incredible privilege of traveling globally three times already in my life: …