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A Year and Counting

The good ole’ lakeA year ago today, I laced up my running shoes and walked down the steep cement slant of my parents’ block for one final run around Lake Merritt. It was a drizzly cold day… more →

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A Year and Counting — 8 comments

laurenquinn wrote 7 months ago: The good ole’ lakeA year ago today, I laced up my running shoes and walked down the steep ceme … more →

Tags: Expatify, Inspiration, Struggles, Successes, Transition, expatify, one year, Šola, transition

The Xe Om Saga, Part Two: Exactly 100% Like Dating — 5 comments

laurenquinn wrote 7 months ago: This, but in 115 degree heatRemember that humorous, uplifting and vaguely life-affirming post I did … more →

Tags: Blunders, Culture Shock, Expatify, female travel, Hanoi, Learning the Ropes, Places, Sola, Southeast Asia

Things To Consider Before Trekking Fancy Pants Mountain — 10 comments

laurenquinn wrote 8 months ago: 1. It is not actually called Fancy Pants Mountain. If you are unable to stop calling it Fancy Pants, … more →

Tags: Dirty Tricks, Offbeat, Places, Southeast Asia, Struggles, Trip Planning, Vietnam, anti-trekking, blogsherpa

Earning It in the Old Quarter

laurenquinn wrote 11 months ago: It was the heat that did it. 115 with humidity and no AC at my friend’s house, where I’d … more →

Tags: Places, Sola, Southeast Asia, Vietnam, Expatify, Transition, Hanoi, Šola, vietnam 2

Evening In Front of Uncle Ho — 7 comments

laurenquinn wrote 11 months ago: Bubbles blowing and bats swooping. Children giggling. The squeak-squeak of those little shoes they p … more →

Tags: Blunders, Culture Shock, Dirty Tricks, Expatify, Hanoi, Places, Sola, Southeast Asia, Transition

How Hip-Hop Saved Me In Cairo

laurenquinn wrote 1 year ago: So. On my way to Cambodia I went to Cairo. (No, it’s not actually “on the way.”) I … more →

Tags: Blunders, Culture Shock, Dirty Tricks, Egypt, female travel, Independent, Lonely Girl Loves, Music, North Africa

Take Me Home, On a Malaysian Highway — 3 comments

laurenquinn wrote 1 year ago: This is what this song with forever be: the Malaysian countryside, flat and scrappy through the wind … more →

Tags: female travel, transit, Places, Subculture, Music, Sola, Independent, Dirty Tricks, Southeast Asia

8 Reasons I'm No Longer A Backpacker — 16 comments

laurenquinn wrote 1 year ago: 1. I am embarrassed by my backpack. It’s big and heavy. There are buckles and pouches and straps; th … more →

Tags: Budget, Independent, Offbeat, backpacker, Getting Older, Šola

Because Love Letters and Get Up From the War: Cambodian Teenagers Report on Gender Inequality — 6 comments

laurenquinn wrote 1 year ago: “Gender disparity” I wrote the phrase in blue felt pen on the dingy white wipe board. … more →

Tags: female travel, Blunders, Places, Culture Shock, Dirty Tricks, Southeast Asia, Cambodia, Phnom Penh, Expatify

"The River That Empties Into The Ocean": Glimpse Piece #2

laurenquinn wrote 1 year ago: Wax refugees from Khao LanSo. Finally, finally, nearly a year after I originally landed on this cont … more →

Tags: abandoned places, Cambodia, Independent, Inspiration, Lonely Girl Loves, Offbeat, Places, Sola, Southeast Asia

Vaguely Familiar Dude Reports on Phnom Penh Nightlife — 6 comments

laurenquinn wrote 1 year ago: shitty flickr photo, not going all undercover yet...The pub is dark and grimy and does not smell lik … more →

Tags: Cambodia, Culture Shock, Dirty Tricks, Expatify, female travel, Learning the Ropes, Phnom Penh, Places, Southeast Asia

A Not Entirely Atypical Tuk-Tuk Ride Home — 3 comments

laurenquinn wrote 1 year ago: 9pm so I give him a good stare down, check the eyes for red and glaze and drunkenness. I watch the w … more →

Tags: Cambodia, Culture Shock, Dirty Tricks, female travel, Independent, Phnom Penh, Places, Sola, Southeast Asia

Cairo, Stencil City — 4 comments

laurenquinn wrote 1 year ago: I landed in Cairo like something shot out the bottom of a waterslide: a sharp gasp and splash of for … more →

Tags: Egypt, Offbeat, Places, Street Art, Subculture, blogsherpa, cairo, egypt 2, Street Art

An Anti-Social Trip to the Pyramids (In 5 Senses) — 5 comments

laurenquinn wrote 1 year ago: DustyFeel: Dusty wind on my cheeks, rustling through my hair—a bad place for contact lenses. A … more →

Tags: female travel, Places, Sola, Culture Shock, Dirty Tricks, Egypt, blogsherpa, Šola, egypt 2

A Surf Board, A Cigarette and An Invitation to South Africa: Another Strange Exchange With Italian Men — 2 comments

laurenquinn wrote 1 year ago: Someone else's surf board, packed up...Only 2 hours left to kill at the Fiumicino airport, wher … more →

Tags: Western Europe, female travel, transit, Places, Sola, Dirty Tricks, Italy, Šola, italy 2

Three Odd Interactions With The Men of Gjirokastra — 6 comments

laurenquinn wrote 1 year ago: 1. Stone/dirt path scramble, muddy Converse and I’m chasing rubble: mad crumbled buildings in … more →

Tags: female travel, Places, Subculture, Sola, abandoned places, Eastern Europe, Albania, blogsherpa, Šola

How To Rock in Kosovo — 2 comments

laurenquinn wrote 1 year ago: Show flier1. Get up at 5am. Ease open the lock on your cupboard and stuff your purse full of the onl … more →

Tags: Offbeat, Places, Subculture, Music, Independent, Eastern Europe, offbeat, blogsherpa, Music

Notes on Flying Into Albania — 6 comments

laurenquinn wrote 1 year ago: At the Bergamo airport outside Milan, and I’m in Albania before I’m in Albania. Waiting … more →

Tags: transit, Offbeat, Places, Dirty Tricks, Eastern Europe, Albania, offbeat, blogsherpa, eastern europe

Pizza and Love in Milan: Le Grand Fooding Milano 2011

laurenquinn wrote 1 year ago: The way to a man’s Italian’s French hipster’s anyone’s heart is through food … more →

Tags: Western Europe, Offbeat, Places, Being American, Lonely Girl Loves, Food, Dirty Tricks, Italy, Food


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