I come from a tiny town. A village, really, in the mountains. I mean, there were 500 people in my town. So, college was eye-opening enough; but after college I decided to open my mind even more and backpack around Europe with a friend for a couple of months. No agendas. Just a free, untethered, mountain goat.

This one time I woke up to this big asshole yelling at me. I got up and got dressed. I ran down stairs and stood in a gaggle fuck for awhile. Then I went and picked up the 120lb bag and another 100 lb bag I packed days earlier. Then I sat on the bag in a parking lot for awhile. Then I got up and someone handed…

So my brother's story.

Apologies in advance for the length, but I went on a month-long trip with the Worst Woman In The World, and it takes some time to relate. The trip in question an around-the-world backpacking extravaganza with some grad school friends to celebrate our graduation before settling down to real life. Three of the women…

I was an unusually naive young woman a few years ago, traveling alone in France. Arriving exhausted at midnight at a hostel in central Paris, I went outside to check my emails on my spanking new Ipad (which had just come out at the time). A group of guys my age or a little older approached and started talking to me…

My (now) husband and were traveling to Malaysia to visit his family. Thus, we did not eat in typical tourist places. The first night there we went to this local seafood restaurant and being good tourists, ate whatever was put in front of us. Which turned out to be bad snails. We spent the rest of our week holed up…

I'd been in Pokhara (200km from Kathmandu and very popular with trekkers) for a few days. I had a flight back to Bangkok from Kathmandu at 9pm on Sunday and had two options to get back there: plane or bus. Since it's common for planes to be grounded because of weather, I thought taking a bus would be the safer option.…

Last year, I lived in Morocco. The pseudo-mandatory expat in Morocco mini-Vacation is the 5-day jaunt down into the Sahara where one does what you would expect one does in the Sahara - ride camels, roll down sand dunes, get Berber nomads drunk and teach them what s'mores are. Y'know - the norm.

Background: I'm a Pakistani, who on this trip was travelling to India. We get a city specific visa (Google Pakistan-India relationship if you have to) and are only allowed to enter and exit the country from the pre-determined entry point/means. (For example, a visa for Mumbai via air, means you cannot leave India from…

Nepal was always one of those places that I used to read about as a kid and wonder about and imagine as just so impossibly far away. My family didn't travel. Explorers and adventurers do that.

Ugggghhh I did something really stupid once. ("once")

I decided I wanted to go to Italy after I graduated college. I was going alone and speak no Italian. Excellent decisions right from the get-go. I'd fallen in love with pictures of a region called the Cinque Terre, which is the Italian Riviera: scenic small towns clinging to cliffs overlooking the Mediterranean. I…

To preface, I am originally from Colombia.

This happened to me during my college semester abroad in China. It was pretty much an accepted fact that everyone, upon spending a few weeks there, was going to get food poisoning, but the big mystery was when/where it would strike. I got it twice in one week.

The last leg of a cross-country trip, coast to coast by train. In the waiting room of Chicago's Union Station, I meet a couple who had just been on a talk show to accuse each other of cheating. He failed the polygraph, she was mad at him, and all three of us were about to board the same train.

Misandrist wedding invitation addresses:

john and jane are fucking dicks so we shouldn't even be inviting them to this wedding.

I don't think she's obligated to tell anyone she doesn't want to tell; Prudie's advice sucks because Prudie's acting like telling her parents she's bisexual is TMI and equating it to telling them about her sexual fetishes.

I've read that he's the first openly atheistic Congressional candidate (other interviews have said that he's an agnostic Humanist)! He's really badass.

Everyone can dance to Taylor Swift's "Shake It Off" as the poison takes over their bodies.