Korea Beyond the Bars

For many, coming to Korea as an English teacher is a sweet deal: free rent, a good salary, and cheap booze. For some of us in the cities, our lifestyle can feel like an extended year of university. School gets out and foreign teachers rendezvous at any place with cheap beer on tap

Floating in a Northern Vietnamese Cloud

I was at the edge of a cliff. Below me, rice paddy fields clung to the edge of the mountain, plunging over a thousand meters downward. I was in the northern mountains of Vietnam, suspended in a cloud

Putting on a Ring in Morocco

As socially aware, well-traveled women, it’s tough to realize that sometimes empowerment comes wrapped in robes that seem, well, perhaps a bit disempowering. I wanted to travel to Morocco. I was living in Spain, I’d traveled on my own throughout Europe, and I pride myself on being an independent, informed, female world citizen

Peace on the Horizon in the Himalayas

We awoke before the sun’s web-like rays had cradled the Kathmandu valley to venture an hour’s drive away from the city.

Each minute seemed to take us leagues away from the metropolis. As we climbed higher up the roads, fog’s dewey fingers clutched us closer and closer until we were so suffocated by its presence that the driver insisted we walk the remainder of the way

Journey to 17,769 Feet

Several months back, my husband and I had decided to include a month trekking in Nepal on our around-the-world trip. We made this decision going on nothing more than a glowing description of the Annapurna Circuit trek from my Dad’s ex-colleague, whom we had never met. Never mind that neither of us had ever done anything more strenuous than a day hike before.