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How to Manifest Miracles to Create the Life of Your Dreams

  Often we think of miracles as dramatic events like the parting of the seas or people being resurrected from the dead. We think of miracles as divine interventions. Occurrences completely outside of...

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Yes, it’s Practical to Quit Your Job and Travel, and Here is Why

  I’ve been traveling the world nonstop, without a permanent address nor a conventional career for the last three and a half years. (Read my full story: Why I Left My Fancy City Life to Become a...

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You Don’t Have to be a Privileged White Girl to Travel

  I live in a world where everything is possible. I live in a world where limitations are self imposed. I live in a world where I create my reality and my destiny.   Though lately, some people have...

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10 Ways to Get Unstuck and Create Change NOW

  You know that terrible dream where you find yourself running from something and you try to scream but nothing comes out? Where defeat feels imminent and you’re completely powerless against it?...

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Why I Don’t Travel With Health Insurance

  If you’re like most Americans, the thought of not having health insurance probably seems absurd. Perhaps even terrifying.   It may seem so terrifying that the fear keeps you in a cushy day job that...

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7 Steps to Achieving a Life of Freedom

  Freedom is a word we throw around in America as casually as a Frisbee. We place our hands over our hearts and bellow, “o’er the land of the free, and the home of the brave.”   We discuss ideas like...

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The Best (and Worst) Things That Ever Happened to Me Traveling

  Do you ever find yourself getting caught up in the “worst case” scenarios?   Obsessively analyzing the probability of what may or may not happen? Doing everything you can to ensure that nothing goes...

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11 Problems That World Travel Instantly Fixes

  “Escape through travel works. Almost from the moment I boarded my flight, life [at home] became meaningless. Seat-belt signs lit up, problems switched off. Broken armrests took precedence over broken...

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How to Feel Safe as a Woman Traveling Alone

  I’ve done some pretty stupid things over the years while traveling. In fact, sometimes I wonder how I’m still alive, relatively sane, and still have all of my limbs intact.   I’ve gotten a ride home...

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10 Tips to Guarantee a Magical Trip to Costa Rica

  No matter how many beaches I walk down, how many mountains I climb, how many oceans I bathe in, how many sunsets I watch, nowhere seems to stir my soul like Costa Rica.     Lush jungle spills onto...

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How to Travel and Work From Anywhere

  I will never forget the moment when it dawned on me, that I was nearly out of money. I had been traveling for over a year, didn’t have a job, and I had slowly drained my savings to three figures.   I...

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Why I Almost Quit Blogging

  When I was sixteen, I started making jewelry in my Mom’s basement. I was bored one day and she had trays full of beads in our craft room, so I played. After a few hours what had begun as play, became...

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33 Inspiring Travel Quotes Guaranteed to Give You Wanderlust

  You know when you read something, and it’s as if somehow the person who wrote it broke into your heart, dug out your feelings, and turned them into words? It’s like for the first time, you’re reading...

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I’m Sorry, But I Have to Run

  I’ve gotten a lot better about adjusting when I come back to the civilized world.     I struggle less in the traffic. I shiver less in the cold. I blend more with the crowd.     I listen patiently as...

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24 Ways to Find Happiness, No Matter Where You Are

  Have you ever noticed how much easier life feels when you’re laying on a tropical beach? Or watching the sunset from a sailboat? Or sleeping in the mountains under the stars?   Have you ever noticed...

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How to Go Home After Traveling… Without Going Crazy

  Sometimes I wonder how I’ve had an easier time adjusting to living in the remote jungle, or eating unidentifiable street food in Asia, or navigating the hectic maze of Morocco, than I have simply...

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How I Healed a Toxic Relationship Through Meditation

  Before reading this post, I recommend reading my previous posts A Karmic Love Story, There are Many Shades of Black, and Why I Practice Love.   “Wiricuta, wiricuta, wiricuta, gran espiritu. Wiricuta,...

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So, You Want to Move to Costa Rica? Read This!

  Want to wake up and watch the sunrise over the ocean? To spend your days surfing, doing yoga, drinking out of coconuts, and taking long naps in a hammock? Want to have the jungle for your backyard?...

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My (NEW) Travel Wellness Kit

  When I’m traveling, I’m easy to spot.   I’m that girl stirring green powder into her fruit smoothie on the street in Thailand. The one sprinkling chia seeds on her breakfast at the hostel. The one...

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My All Natural (and Effective) Travel Beauty Kit

  The abundance of 7-11 convenience stores was basically my favorite thing about Bangkok. After hours of sweating in over a hundred degree heat in the crazy city streets, I’d dip into the cool air...

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