Candy Man

February 2019, on a walking tour in the main market square in Kraków, Poland, I saw The Eros Bendato by Igor Mitoraj. Also, and most importantly, I saw a kid lick a trash bin in the middle of market square. The mom yelled. I laughed. The group laughed. The kid was confused and proceeded to […]

Walking Tours + Meeting an Instagram Celebrity

I appreciate this walking tour, but our serial killers win. – A fellow American I met on the Macabre Krakow walking tour (she isn’t wrong) I must have the kind of face that says, “Hello… talk to me…” because I found that as I wandered, that’s what would happen. People would just talk to me. […]

Visiting This City Was Not in My Plan

“Sometimes the best journeys are those, that start when we do not plan, continue how we do not expect and are taking us places we do not know.” – Aisha Mirza In early February 2019, I left Warsaw with a week to float around Poland before going to Krakow. I could have gone to Krakow early, […]

Witamy w Polsce

“When a thing beckons you to explore it without telling you why or how, this is not a red herring; it’s a map.” – Gina Greenlee Welcome to Poland! …. Part 1 ** This post is purely speaking about my experiences in Poland and not giving a travelers guide. I have tips for travelling in Poland, […]

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 […]