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Traveling Bliss: Fethiye, Turkey

Traveling Bliss: Fethiye, Turkey

Is there anything better than a waterfront tangled with masts and flanked by tree-clad hills? Barely! On Week 2 of the Journey, I hit Fethiye, a relatively tiny town tucked into Turkey’s southwest Mediterranean coast. Let’s pause for a moment and reflect on Week 2 of said Journey. I was […]

You Deserve

You Deserve

A few weeks ago, I grew inspired reading a blog post from my indefatigable friend Roz, titled, “you are allowed.” It was simple, really: a reminder to allow ourselves to follow our hearts, passions, urges, inklings — no matter how grandiose or minuscule. There was no harping or needling here, […]

Traveling Bliss: Varanasi, India

Traveling Bliss: Varanasi, India

It startles me that one of my favorite photos from the journey, taken during a sunrise boat trip along the Ganges River, so magically depicts what became my least favorite place, Varanasi. Arriving in Varanasi, we were welcomed by some trickery from a tuk-tuk driver, dumped unceremoniously down a side […]

Koh Ngai, Thailand

Traveling Bliss: Koh Ngai, Thailand

Once upon a magical time, I spent weeks carousing around the islands and beaches of Thailand in all my ’round the world trip glory. Ok ok, so carousing might be a strong word; the reality looked a lot more like me basking on beach mats, reading oodles of books while lying beachfront, gorging […]

Crowds in Manhattan's Times Square.

One for All

“Operation Be a Better Human” is officially in effect. Of late, I’ve been on a mission to better engage with my own species here in Gotham. As a city dweller living in the midst of scores of people, I could easily and often make small and beautiful connections with so […]

Fumbling Toward Happiness

Fumbling Toward Happiness

The morning I moved into my current apartment, I awoke at my West Village sublet and wandered into the kitchen to make tea. As I gazed out the window, I saw a nude guy casually meandering around his roof deck, mere yards from my perch. As if that weren’t enough […]

Live the Questions

Live the Questions

When I finally sat down to write a blog post last week after my uber-long hiatus, I started to write merely to get the gears spinning, to write anything, to get back in the blogging saddle. Once I started typing, sharing my story really became a catharsis; at first, a […]

A room with a view

I Remember Who I Am

I believed for a while that the most difficult decision I’d ever make in this life, and the most courage I’d dare exhibit were ensconced in the choice to give it “all” up and travel around the world. I had not, it’s now quite clear, taken into consideration my journey […]

The Power of the List

The Power of the List

A few nights ago while digging around my desk I knocked over a crumpled stack of papers that I had wedged into a corner. Taking a closer peek at my scribblings and scratches, I realized these were the to-do and packing lists I had written up before I left on […]

No seat, no star.

The Great International Toilet Ranking System

Like you, I go to the bathroom. Perhaps not like you, I suspect I have a bladder the size of a pistachio. Such physical predicaments have helped me accrue a certain expertise in the realm of public restrooms. Still, there’s nothing like 7 months on the road in developing nations […]

Me and Ayaz, Your Fearless Travel Judges

Travel Awards, Passenger Conners-Style!

Since my return home, I realize that there are questions everyone wants to know (What was your favorite country?) and then there are questions everyone REALLY wants to know (Where did you see the hottest people?). During one particularly lengthy leg of the USA road trip, Ayaz and I pondered […]

The end of the road.

Home Again, Home Again

I’m writing this post sitting in the exact same living room, the exact same leather couch seat where I sat just over 7 months ago when I announced my plans to travel around the globe. And it’s weird. Not bad, mind you, but definitely strange. Seven months ago when I […]