Henry J. Bean’s

I ate here. I ate Indian food at Henry J. Bean’s Bar and Grill. I ate Indian food at this American themed restaurant inside of a 4-star hotel attached to the Don Muang International Airport in Bangkok. Why? I missed my connecting flight to Udon Thani. Why? I used an app called KIWI for cheap […]

Homemade Sweatshirt

The sweatshirt itself wasn’t homemade but the design on the sweatshirt was. He had creatively attached a doily of lace to the front of a black sweatshirt. He had also made the design on his backpack match the design on his sweatshirt. Wait… let me catch y’all up… In Hiroshima, Japan, I met up with […]

Gong Thirty

Location  –  Dhamma Bhanu Vipassana Meditation Centre, Kyoto, Japan […] we found this velvet wall. It was dirt, but it felt like velvet. It was cool to see nature differently. It felt like the trees were pulsating sometimes, and we went over this look out trying to focus on individual trees and couldn’t. A patch […]

A simple truth

I’m not afraid to go where I’m uncomfortable to stand for love. I’m a dove with claws. Johnny Cash I heard this quote for the first time just 10 days before I was set to board the first flight of many. I remember thinking how scared I was of the what if’s. And then I […]

How It All Started

Checklist Items for 20181. Quit job… Check. 2. Sell house… Check.3. Get stranded in Narita, Japan for a weekend in August 2018… Check. Wait… what?     Yeah, that happened. In August 2018, I was on a flight en route to Manila, Philippines to go backpacking. Once the plane from Detroit to Narita landed, the cabin crew […]

Wander Often

Everything is imaginary until you go out and see it. And that’s exactly why I started my wander-ful 8 month trek … to see things that, at the time, were simply imaginary. This blog details those adventures and the people I met.