.post .storycontent .subtitle { width: 52%; float: left; margin-right: 3%;} While America debates on who to vote into the White House, Erin Byrne discovers the Irish have already made their decision.
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On the road / Photo IrishFireside
In Ireland, the roads are lined with ivy-covered stone fences and sprinkled with livestock.
The world is beautiful and harsh in all its infinite possibilities. Whenever I travel, what I call ???The Tramp and the Kid Doctrine??? guides me.
Photo by FreaksAnon
“You are a hobo,” declared my friend of a decade. I stared at her, perplexed, and racked my brains to figure out why she was calling me a bum.
Maybe it had something to do with the fact that I was planning a trip to Peru despite not having worked for several months.
Over the past millennium, thousands of people, from all over Europe and all over the world, have made the pilgrimage to Santiago. Laurie Pickard is one of them.
One hundred miles into my two-hundred mile journey, I was seriously considering calling it quits.
I was tired and sore, and I had blisters on every single one of my toes. Even the thought of putting my pack on again in the morning filled me with dread.
Tags: Lessons, Learned, From, The, Camino, del, Santiago, Pilgrimage
The last 16 months of my life have been spent wandering.
After graduating from college, like many of my peers I had no real clue as to what to do with my life. I did what anyone with an insatiable travel bug would do and took off to an exotic destination to teach English.
The exotic destination quickly turned into a mundane daily rhythm that was full of obstacles, frustrations and existential questions. At the end of my contract, the travel-bug and existential questions were still there. I kept traveling.
Tags: Lessons, Learned, From, The, Vagabond, Life