Yes to Nowhere: a sometimes-too-honest travel blog I’ve gone to a lot of places. I’ve seen lots of things. I’ve done lots of stuff. Then I like to write about it.

Welcome Back, Me!

Hey everyone!! It has been a WHILE. I can’t believe my last update to this thing was in January…so much has happened since then, I don’t even know how I will remember everything. This all has...

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Back to the Land of Avocados

It’s interesting, how being in a new place can change you so much. I’ve been back in Guatemala for like, four full days, and I feel like a different person. I was determined to get back into...

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Overwhelmed for the Millionth Time

Here I am, sitting in my bedroom on my laptop, feeling a swirl of emotions that’s become all too familiar to me. The final moments before leaving for a trip–or before returning home from...

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The end of the year

So after seeing half a million “what I’ve accomplished this year and therefore why I am so proud of myself” posts on my Facebook feed, I decided that maybe it was time to make my own. I did a...

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Hiking Acatenango

I did a thing! I hiked the Acatenango Volcano! It was hands-down the hardest hike I’ve ever done, and one of the hardest physical challenges I’ve ever done as well! Acatenango is over 13,000 feet...

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The Great Escape

So, I left the animal shelter. For a million and one reasons, but the most immediate was that they told my friend, home for a week for Thanksgiving, that they didn’t want her to return. At that...

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Attempting Thankfulness

I didn’t remember it was thanksgiving today until my mom said something about it yesterday. Being immersed in my own world in a country that doesn’t celebrate it and being frustrated and angry...

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All Of My Posts Are About Dead Animals

I’m so sad and mad and frustrated and empty and all of the feelings.  My favorite puppy died in my arms today. I was going to bring her home with me. I helped raise her. Actually, I helped raise...

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Life is Awful

The last few days have been some of the hardest I’ve had in a long time. There has been too much death and anxiety for one person to handle. If you don’t want to hear a lot of depressing stuff...

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Exhaustion

It’s been a while. I think. I’m not sure—the days and nights have started to blend together, and I’m having trouble keeping track of what day of the week it is. Or what month it is....

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