2017 was perhaps the most amazing year of my life, and I could not have asked for a better note to end my twenties on. When I made my 30 before 30 several years ago, I put all sorts of big and small things on it. I couldn’t say for sure if I would actually cross off any, I only knew then that turning 30 was supposed to be this ~big deal~, an event to …
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Day 2 of our hike to Machu Picchu dawned early and foggy at 6 AM. After a quick breakfast, our group headed towards the bus stop from which buses departed for the site. We were sore and sleepy (a lot of us had stayed up the night drying our clothes and shoes for today), but we were finally here, we were finally going to see for ourselves one of the most spectacular wonders of the …
“Some things are hard to write about. After something happens to you, you go to write it down, and either you over dramatize it, or underplay it, exaggerate the wrong parts or ignore the important ones. At any rate, you never write it quite the way you want to.” ― Sylvia Plath It took wayyyyy too long to put this post together (oops!) but I had to do it before the year ended, after all this …
Of all the things I thought I would inherit from my mother, I never imagined it would end up being her fondness of cultivating a garden. Last year, in a fit of sentimentality, I got home a Tulsi plant (ocimum tenuiflorum or the holy basil) because I missed home. For as long as I can remember, my mother had always had a tulsi around. I kept that plant (barely) alive for a few months before …
A while ago, buried somewhere deep in the backwaters of the Internet, I came across this quote by an anonymous Tumblr user. The words made me nostalgic for something I hadn’t even experienced yet. It was odd (and yet it was not) to already know what it would be like to really feel alive in the way described. To go on a road trip, explore places unknown, sleep out of a car, take polaroid pictures, drive to places …
As much as I have been ready for adventure and thrill from the get go, I had never actually tried extreme sports. Everyone always talks about that rush of adrenaline after a bungee jump or a sky dive, and I had no real sense of what that meant. So, when I made my 30 before 30 list I put ‘go bungee jumping / sky diving (any adventure sport really!)’ right at the top. I checked off this list item – …