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Happy Pi Mai! (Songkran)

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A-ha! Here we are at the blog that hibernated for two years. ;) But I do make an appearance every once in a while when time is permitted and I want to procrastinate from something. (such as my masters thesis)  --- Since I stowed away my camera so it would survive the rest of my trip, some of these photos aren't the best quality. I took them with my iPhone which I had to continuously shuffle in and out of a questionably waterproof pouch, however, I thought I would make a blog post about Lao's "Songkran" since it has now been a year since I traveled through that ever-beautiful, majestic country. 4,000 Islands - Laos Laos celebrates the Lunar New Year, Songkran (Pi Mai in Lao) similar to Thailand, Cambodia, Myanmar, Sri-Lanka and other parts of Southern and Southeast Asia; with lots and lots of water. Although it would have been interesting to experience the extreme celebration in Bangkok, I was happy to have been in a place where tourists and loc

To Build A Home.

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“Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.” ― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky The walls of my room were collaged with vinyl records, silk scarves, pictures of friends, family and travels, posters of musicians and past performances, old love notes, letters, postcards, awards, reminders, and anything you can think of from the time I was a teenager up until college. Before we came to Germany, I tore everything down and just cried. I knew that one day I would have to do it, but didn't realize how emotional it would be. I fell asleep to flaky, empty walls which seemed both disturbing and liberating. The faint lines of the glow in the dark stars I put up when I was a kid continued to glow, even though my dad scratched them off. As much as I wanted to ignore the fact we were selling ou

Hiking the Zugspitze.

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As promised, I have come back to write on my blog. ;)  In August, my dad and I took a trail that lead to the Zugspitze, the tallest mountain in Germany and of the Wetterstein Mountain Range (Northern Limestone Alps). Although I have hiked a lot in my life, the Zugspitze is the tallest mountain I have climbed to date at 9,718 ft. Not only did we climb the mountain, but we hiked for two days in pouring rain with semi-proper rain equipment, and endured the majority of the mountain covered in slippery snow. Needless to say, I purchased a postcard where I was able to see what the view “would” have looked like. Still, it was an amazing experience, which you can read more about below if you are interested. A little map on the train showed various stops and a cute picture of the Zugspitze. I would like to begin by saying that on our short, yet tiring two day trek, I did in fact bring a book of Henry David Thoreau’s Meditations called “A Light in the Woods” compiled and edit