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  • Europe, Solo Female Travel, Travel Stories

    How to Plan a Backpacker Style Vacation (Iceland Edition)

    How does a former backpacker go on vacation? I try it out in Iceland and share some tips and challenges!

    January 7, 2020 by Mariah
  • Life Musings

    The Vulnerability of Joy

    Joy is our key to resilience. It’s the thing that actually gives us enough courage to face our fear of loss and still allow ourselves to feel gratitude anyway. Without a deep commitment to the vulnerability of joy, we would not have the fortitude to survive sorrow.

    November 27, 2019 by Mariah
  • Faith, Life Musings

    Help is on the way

    What if we ask and it doesn’t come? What if the way it comes isn’t how we wanted it? What if it’s not from who we want it? Or, even worse, the last person we want it from?

    Asking is a form of surrender and that shit is scary. More than needing help itself.

    July 18, 2019 by Mariah
  • Life Musings

    Waiting for the bus

    The freedom I feel while waiting for the bus. I smile and take note. It reminds me of the color mustard and how I wore it for more than a year, strapped to my back, waiting and smoking and leaving and, saying hello again and again.

    June 23, 2019 by Mariah
  • South America, Travel Stories

    We breathe the rain forest

    “Quito se llama ‘La luz de America,’ he told me and I thought that it wouldn’t hurt so much. This place of water pouring and dripping down verdant valleys and soft, smooth rocks rising up from craters with lava lakes and palms and monos and oil.

    May 4, 2019 by Mariah
  • Life Musings, Solo Female Travel, Travel Stories

    To blow up a dam, or write

    Can our love find a way that is not violence? That is not a reaction of hatred to hatred? Fear pushed up against fear, heavy heads against brick wall alleys?

    April 4, 2019 by Mariah
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About MeHello! I'm Mariah. Seven years ago I quit my job to travel the world and started this blog. I share that story and many more here. It’s my goal to learn and love with abandon and to share that journey with you. Thanks for being here. I hope you recognize a piece of yourself in these stories and feel loved.

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