[Welcome to the vault of blog posts from the holidays that were unpublished – until now. Not wanting to spend the holidays crying alone in my apartment, I went on a mission to visit castles in the pueblos in the Community of Madrid. This castle was my favorite.]
“I thought the castle would be bigger,” I thought as the bus pulled into the village.
Do you ever have moments where you look around you, and wonder, how in the world did I end up here?!
That’s how I’ve felt ever since I arrived in Gran Canaria.
No one would have come here with me, even if I’d asked them to, I thought to myself, shivering in the rain.
It was a late Friday morning. I was standing at a bus stop in the rain, in a Spanish city whose signs were written in Basque. Which was making matters more confusing as I don’t speak Basque.
A few days prior, when I’d spontaneously booked a trip to San Sebastian, I’d been playing with Google Maps. I noticed that San Sebastian wasn’t too far from the French border. So, I started looking at the towns along the border, and scrolling at the images. Nothing too interesting.
Until I found this:
Continue reading “Hondarribia, Spain: No One Would Have Come With Me Here”
I started to notice the shift on Facebook.
I was living in Colombia when it started. Something really strange was happening.
The English language was changing. And I felt like I wasn’t catching up. Continue reading “21 Millennial and Gen Z Slang Words I Didn’t Understand When I Came Back to the USA”
“What if the pandemic is preparing you for everything you asked for?”
I know. It sounds ridiculous. That’s the first thing I thought of when this idea came to me in writing meditation one day. Continue reading “What No One Tells You About Travel and Loneliness”
