Click here for the audio version of this post. “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… Continue reading America
Click here for the audio version of this post. As soon as the wheels touched down in Baku, Azerbaijan, the entire plane erupted in applause. I had heard of cultures that do this but never experienced it firsthand. It was quite surreal. Azerbaijan is a country that some consider to be part of Central Asia… Continue reading Azerbaijan to Armenia (and an unexpected intro to Georgia)
Click here for the audio version of this post. This has been the most difficult and lonely part of my trip. Don’t take that as an Oh my gosh, Renee is struggling message, but rather an, Oh my gosh, Renee is learning message. The English speakers are far and few between in this part of… Continue reading Uzbekistan and Tajikistan
Click here for the audio version of this post. A few weeks ago, I was having these boughts of emotion where I would just cry and cry and cry. The tears were mostly about myself, about what I had accomplished. The feelings started to diminish as I got further into my journey and realized that… Continue reading Kazakhstan
Click here for the audio version of this post. Of all the things I’ve learned traveling, the most prominent is that we are all more alike than we might think. We all have a longing for the same basic needs – food, water, shelter, and human connection. I arrived into Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan around 1 pm… Continue reading Kyrgyzstan
Click here for the audio version of this post. My family and I have this strange tradition where we collect random coins from the streets, sidewalks, and public places. The person with the most amount of money at the end of the year gets everyone else’s coins. In 2020, I collected 82 cents from the… Continue reading Lithuania and Poland
Click here for the audio version of this post. I had one final night, alone, in Naples, Italy before I headed to The Baltics. I walked in the door of my hostel to find a flight of stairs going down with no elevator in sight. Dead on the top step was a giant cockroach. It… Continue reading Estonia and Latvia
Click here for the audio version of this post. My bucket list has ‘do one thing every year that scares you to death’ listed on it. It’s no secret that I’ve checked that off for 2022 already, but on our day trip to San Marino, I got to check this off yet again. We had… Continue reading San Marino and Southern Italy
Click here for the audio version of this post. Slovenia was the fresh of breath air that I needed after a few difficult days in Dubrovnik. My feelings of being trapped and a total loss of freedom were so quickly restored and I was getting my travel adrenaline back. I did get some rest on… Continue reading Slovenia to Venice, Italy
Click here for the audio version of this post. A few years back, Tony and I walked across the border from Belize to Guatemala. I remember so vividly the bridge that we were walking under just inside the Guatemalan border when we passed a mother pushing her roughly eight-year-old child in a wheelchair that was… Continue reading Montenegro to Croatia to Bosnia
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