
Musings



25 great travel quotes for inspiring global adventures
I’ve sometimes found it difficult to convey what travel means to me, especially when talking to people whose only image of travel involves a resort vacation spent entirely by the …
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6 big Polish stereotypes that are kinda silly
You know what’s weird? Sometimes ignorance is informative. Case in point: I never knew any Polish stereotypes growing up. It was only years after I went to Poland that I …
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10 big Russian stereotypes (that are kinda true)
Pretty much every time I tell people I’ve been to Russia, they ask me why I bothered going there, and how they picture it as just a bunch of babushkas …
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Slavic people are allergic to glass
A common refrain among backpackers swashbuckling their way through Eastern Europe is the disheartening observation of “no one ever smiles.” Well, it’s kinda true. If you’ve ever tried to deal …
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You crazy kids and your plush party hostels!
Allow me to share with you the depth of my experiences, the wisdom of my years, the precision of my insurmountable intellectual prowess, in this unmitigated burst of rantastical glory, …
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