Oxford- Visiting Graves

Oof. Readjusting to "normal" life is difficult. Suddenly people want me to be places at certain times and Scout expects to be fed (every day, too!) and there's something called a "job" that people are going on and on about. Which is a long way of saying, it's taken me a while to write this …

London- Don’t Meet Your Heroes

All right folks, back to your regularly-scheduled programming. (Will return to dismantling capitalism in two ticks.) On my three week solo international journey (aka my TWSIJ), I visited London for the first time. I was torn between giddiness and apprehension. For most of my life, I had been exploring a different version of London, a …

Writing Under Capitalism

I have recently been reading "The View From Flyover Country" (Thanks, Pads!), and it reiterating and deepening my understanding of many issues. Primarily for me, the impossibility of writing under capitalism. Writing is communication. When writing is honest, it is an expression of soul, or if you prefer, an expression of the inner workings of …

Amsterdam- Dedication

I am home now, back to the sunlight and hypocrisy of Northern California, and I finally have a moment to catch you up on the last half of my travels. When we last spoke, I was in Wiesbaden, returned to my AirBnB after a long walk in the dark. The next day, bright and early, I …

A Long Walk Home

So I've been thinking about this post for a long time. Since way before the trip began. What does it mean to be a (relatively) young woman (?) traveling alone in 2018? I have always loved exploring on my own, but in the past it has always been within the context of a group. I'd …

And Beyond

It's been a hectic two weeks. Two weeks since I doused myself in the shower at midnight. Two weeks since I declared once again that my life is my life is my life and at the end of it the only person I have to answer to is myself. So, in the intervening two weeks, …