I tracked my spending for the entire 35 days I spent backpacking in Europe from December 6, 2024 to January 9, 2025. I categorized (almost) every transaction, allowing me to make a nice visualization of how much I spent across categories for the entire trip and the average per day. Overview Total spending: $3,888 | … Read more
Hello friends! Happy New Year, and I hope you’re having a marvelous start to 2025. This is my last solo travel newsletter from Europe (for now), and by the time this post is sent out I should be back in the US. Please hang out with me. I missed you guys 😭 I spent the … Read more
Hello friends, I’m back! The last two weeks have been interesting—higher highs, and lower lows. I’m starting to feel a bit of travel fatigue from moving around so much. 🇦🇹 Vienna, Austria My next stop after Prague was Vienna. My first impression was… oh shit, they speak German? Vienna is the Italian name for the … Read more
Hello friends! I finally have the stable internet, empty time, and energy to write up this post. I know it’s not Sunday, but it’s probably better that I wrote this after visiting Prague rather than in the middle of it 🙂 Anyways, here’s what I’ve been up to! 🇫🇷 France (Paris) As cliché as it … Read more
Hello from Paris! This is the first newsletter of many as I write about my Europe travels over the next few weeks. I’m writing this around 5:30 AM on my phone in the darkness of my hostel bunk bed, since I feel like it would be too disruptive to the other 7 people in this … Read more
Hello friends! As some of you might know, I’ll be taking off for ~5 weeks at the end of the year to go on a solo trip to Europe. I’m basically using up 80% of my banked up PTO in one go, so I sure hope it’ll be a good time 🙂 I figured for … Read more
Hello friends! I’m trying something new this week by forcefully timeboxing my writing to the ~1 hour it takes for my Caltrain from Sunnyvale to the Milbrae Bart station 🙂 This past week, the big thing I did was go on (another) backpacking trip, this time to Ansel Adams Wilderness in the Inyo National Forest! … Read more
Last week, I got the chance to travel all throughout North Carolina. I spent 3 days in Raleigh, 3 days in Boone (for the MEAT 🍖 conference), 0.5 day in Greensboro, and 3 days in Charlotte. Charlotte → Raleigh → Boone → Greensboro → Charlotte ⛰️ Discovering North Carolina 1. North Carolina is green!!! Apparently … Read more
I had quite a wild travel itinerary this week. I went from Vancouver to San Francisco, San Francisco to Calgary, Calgary to Vancouver, Vancouver to Charlotte, and then Charlotte to Raleigh, hitting a total of 5 different airports in less than 24 hours. 7/23: YVR → SFO 7/25: SFO → YYC 7/25: YYC → YVR … Read more
