Recent Posts
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e0191940 wrote a new post, Amid Locals, on the site The Travel Fellowship Journal 8 hours, 35 minutes ago
BANGKOK
AnmeiBangkok was, in some ways, nothing like I expected. Maybe I’d gotten used to the uneven pavements, screaming motorbikes, and comically persistent street vendors of Ho Chi Minh City (all o […]
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e0191940 wrote a new post, Making Peace With Who You Are, on the site The Travel Fellowship Journal 1 day, 5 hours ago
HO CHI MINH CITY
AnmeiLet me tell you about Ho Chi Minh City. It starts in Jakarta, where I got a text from my friend Yuling, who had previously connected us with her former Chinese teacher in Ho Chi […]
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Avery Elizabeth Simmons wrote a new post, A Sublime Adventure: Avery’s Final Reflection, on the site The Travel Fellowship Journal 5 days, 9 hours ago
Sublime: “Inspiring deep veneration, awe, or uplifting emotion because of [their] beauty, nobility, grandeur, or immensity.”—Yi-fu Tuan, Romantic Geography: In Search of the Sublime Landscape (2014 […]
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Avery Elizabeth Simmons wrote a new post, Race from St. Petersburg to Beijing, on the site The Travel Fellowship Journal 5 days, 10 hours ago
Race: From St. Petersburg to Shanghai
One of the things that first attracted me about traveling the Trans-Siberian Railroad was investigating Russia as both a European and Asian country. In St. Petersburg, […]
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e0208814 wrote a new post, Anarchism and the Konohana Family, on the site The Travel Fellowship Journal 5 days, 12 hours ago
Yesterday I packed up my bags, said my many emotional goodbyes, and left the Konohana Family, purple umbrella in hand.
I returned to Tokyo a day earlier than initially planned, hoping to avoid a second […]
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e0032427 wrote a new post, Serendipity, on the site The Travel Fellowship Journal 1 week ago
Week 1, Jincong;
More often than not, great trips are the ones that stray a little from the plan.
The best trips are the ones that go completely wild.
Emails sent out to connections, ac […]
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e0208814 wrote a new post, Organic Premium Bananas, on the site The Travel Fellowship Journal 1 week, 3 days ago
Everyday I wake up at 6:30am, walk over to Nakagami Warehouse, and spend the early morning packaging produce. I share this ritual with about 15 other people, every member of the Harvest and Field Teams along with […]
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e0191984 wrote a new post, The End or the Beginning?, on the site The Travel Fellowship Journal 2 weeks, 1 day ago
After a long but impactful 6 weeks of spending time chasing answers, I feel like I have answers to questions that I didn’t even ask in the first place and new questions that are so unplanned I don’t know where to […]
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e0208814 wrote a new post, Carrot Harvest, Heat Stroke, and A Missed Typhoon, on the site The Travel Fellowship Journal 2 weeks, 2 days ago
It has been an extraordinarily eventful last few weeks. I finished my time in Tokyo, made my way to Fujinomiya, and, as of today, have been living and working with the Konohana Family for two weeks.
Wait, […]
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e0191984 wrote a new post, The Ending: The Most Assimilated, on the site The Travel Fellowship Journal 2 weeks, 4 days ago
What I kept realizing this trip was the conflict between my personal and ethnic identities. We bumped into several groups of Shanghainese people in The Grand Palace, and when I heard them speak the local dialect, […]
