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Continue reading →: The Noise Before the SilenceThe new year brought some exciting adventures for me. I picked up a new sport. I started this blog. I began training for the Pacific Crest Trail. 2026 is going to be an awesome year! And I’m just getting started. I just didn’t expect these past couple of months to…
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Continue reading →: The Asia I Thought I Knew: Lessons from BusanMiddle school created a very inaccurate picture in my mind of what Asia was like. I’m a little embarrassed to admit it now, but I thought Asia was the aesthetic playground of gothic eleven-year-olds who wore striped socks from The Addams Family and studded bracelets, lived on a diet of…
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Continue reading →: The Shape of My AbsenceEvery day the trail is becoming more and more real to me. With each day that passes, I realize that the challenges I face now and the activities I love will no longer be on my agenda in just a couple of months. Soon, I won’t be working, cleaning the…
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Continue reading →: A Season of BecomingRemember 2020? I graduated college just in time — sliding across the finish line as the world shut down and classes moved online. While many students were figuring out a virtual summer in a beautiful college town, I was packing my bags. I had waited years for this moment. I…
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Continue reading →: Less Than Three Months and CountingIt’s been less than a month since my application to hike the PCT was approved, and somehow the “minus three months until trail” countdown has already started sprinting. The last four weeks have been a blur of FaceTime calls with Dad, purchases from small thru-hiking companies, Amazon, and REI (plus…
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Continue reading →: Choosing Joy — Inch by InchI used to live with a low-grade bitterness that followed me like a shadow. In my younger years, I spent a lot of time regretting decisions and wishing life had unfolded differently. It took me longer than I’d like to admit to realize that this way of living was draining…
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Continue reading →: Bosnia and Herzegovina: Thirty Years After the WarTucked beside one of Eastern Europe’s most popular tourist destinations — Croatia — is a country that rarely makes anyone’s bucket list. Not so tourist-friendly. Less picturesque. And, as I would soon learn, a history that still drives the country to this day. My friend Morghan and I decided it…
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Continue reading →: Finding Purpose in an Unexpected PlaceSomewhere between the pages of Adolescence and Being a Grown-Up, I must have missed the chapter on making friends. For someone with a six-cylinder social battery, this should have been relatively easy. Years of theater productions, small groups, and social gatherings introduced me to some truly wonderful people. And yet,…
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Continue reading →: A New Journey: The Pacific Crest TrailThe Pacific Crest Trail—often shortened to the PCT—is a 2,650-mile footpath that stretches from the border of Mexico to the border of Canada, cutting through California, Oregon, and Washington. It’s best known for epic views, blistered feet, and the kind of personal revelations that tend to arrive sometime after your…
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