Infographics – Unraveled Travels

You Guys! I’m Habla-ing…ish!

May 24, 2017

Yesterday I arrived in La Paz, Bolivia, all by myself for a couple days of solo travel. For the first time ever, I spent more of the day speaking Spanish than speaking English. It was one of my proudest days on Remote Year. It was basic Spanish, but it was still Spanish.My First Test: Get into the CountryUpon arriving in La Paz, my first test…

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Losing at Translations

March 29, 2017

I’m three months into living in Spanish-speaking countries, and I really thought that by now I’d be speaking more Español than I have been. The challenge of living, traveling and working alongside 50+ native/fluent English speakers is that it’s really hard to break out of my language comfort zone. When circumstances do call for speaking Spanish, there’s almost always someone…

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Time in a Bottle…of Antibiotics

March 29, 2017

My first week in Colombia was a pretty typical South American adventure. I started the week with a stomach bug, and ended it with my cell phone being stolen right out of my purse while I was wearing it. These were minor trials, and I share them not to complain, but because in the process of tying up some loose ends in their wake, I gained an…

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#IkigaiOrDie

March 29, 2017

The Oxford English dictionary begins the definition for community as “a group of people living in the same place,” and continues with variations on that theme of place: a particular area of place considered with its inhabitants a body of nations or states the people of a distinct countryBut when countries and places constantly change, a different sense of community forms, a community based on common…

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Leaving Lisbon with a Little Level 3 Fun

March 29, 2017

Back at the beginning of August during our initial Remote Year orientation in Lisbon, our program leaders introduced a philosophy the company has termed “Level 3 Fun” that is totally in the spirit of Unraveled Travels. The concept classifies “fun” into three different levels: Level 1 FunEveryday activities you find simple pleasure in. Level 1 Fun is Sunday morning coffee and crossword puzzles. Happy…

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Remotely Interesting

April 4, 2017

Wow. What a month and a half. On July 31, I arrived in Lisbon, Portugal to kick off a year of traveling, working, living, adventuring, and generally badassing around the world with Remote Year, which I’ve been describing as an international mobile coworking program. Every month for a year, 75(ish) of us “digital nomads” move together to a new foreign city where we live, work…

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