September 16, 2017 Where did all my traveling begin? Hm, I'm going to have to say Harry Potter. Yup, J.K. Rowling filling my young head with ideas that anything is possible. Romanticizing about living in a castle, learning about magic, being surrounded by friends all the time. They were so happy and had so much fun! I begged my mom to send me to boarding school, cause that's the same thing. I was fourteen years old, begging my mom to let me do these expensive study abroad tri

There have been a few times I've almost been kidnapped abroad. Luckily, all those movies, TV shows, books, classes, my parents, girl scouts, saved me. Everything I've learned growing up, but also just pure luck. Here is one of those stories. Chile, May 15 2009, I asked my host family for a ride home from my Rotary meeting I had in the city that night. They denied my request, saying Darcie, the previous foreign exchange student, always had to walk home. So after the meeting in