Category: wheelstravelstheworld
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Fiji (and a little bit of New Zealand)
Bula! This means Hello in Fijian. When I was making the decision to take the jump and leave my job to live my dreams, there were few people who consistently told me to do it, to take the jump, to live the life I had been saving for for the past 38 years. There were […]
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Tonga and Samoa
I am completely overcome with emotion. You would think that by this point in my journey, there wouldn’t be much left for me to learn. But every day, every person I encounter, every meal I have, I learn something new. I was prepared for the long flights, the poor WiFi, the time changes, the unideal […]
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Solomon Islands and Kiribati
I have so much to write I don’t even know where to begin. I arrived into the Solomon Islands refreshed from my stay in Vanuatu. I was going to be in the Solomon Islands for three nights – mostly because it’s the only way I could get my flight patterns to work with all of […]
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Being The Only One: From Timor-Leste to Vanuatu
Something about Timor-Leste has pushed me to a new point in my journey. I’ve suddenly come to a place where I have accepted the inequality in this world. It breaks my heart that our world is so full of it, and I can’t support it nor will I ever, but I’m accepting it. On my […]
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My Mid-Life Crisis Brought Me to Micronesia (The Federated States of Micronesia, The Marshall Islands, & Palau)
I was lying in bed with Tony a few days before I left for this next jaunt of my journey. We were talking, well I was talking, about what my future looked like, where we should live, what I should do for work, and so on. He calmly said, “Don’t worry about it now. Just […]
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My Momma Gave Me Strength
I was 26 years old when my doctor delivered some of the most profound and difficult words to me. “Well, if you really want to walk, we can probably make it happen. We would have to amputate your left leg above the knee and replace it with a prosthetic. We would conduct a knee replacement […]
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Grenada, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Barbados, and St. Kitts and Nevis
I was sitting at a café along the beach in St. Vincent when Floyd approached me. He leaned over the balcony and asked for the WiFi password. “FrenchFries, both capital F’s,” I responded. And before I knew it, we were engaged in a long, deep conversation. Floyd was born in the UK but was Jamaican. […]
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Suriname, Guyana, and Trinidad and Tobago
I’ve been feeling very directionless lately. After a long weekend in Minnesota with my family, I got back to Atlanta. I dreamt about my old job that first night. It makes sense, given that the apartment I live in is also where I worked, where I spent 11 weeks indoors during the pandemic, not leaving […]
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Memories
“We are all just passing through,” my Dad told me as we were talking about some of the takeaways from my trip. I don’t often get time to sit and chat with my Dad, just one-on-one, really listening to each other. This resonated with me and I’ve been thinking about it for about a week […]
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America
“Everyone wants to come to America.” I cannot believe that I am one of the 5% of the entire global population who holds an American passport. I cannot believe that because of this blue covered booklet that says United States of America on it, I am one of the most privileged and coveted people in […]
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