Best Moments

• Ziplining over rainbow-filled rainforest valley, Santa Elena, Costa Rica.
• Moonrise on Isla del Sol, Bolivia.
• Shiraz and siestas, Mendoza, Argentina.
• Dolphins chasing the boat, Doubtful Sound, New Zealand.
• Stargazing  beside moving glaciers, Mount Cook, New Zealand.
• Sunrise over the Pacific ocean, Fraser Island, Australia.
• Snorkeling with cuttlefish and giant sea turtles, Gulf of Thailand.
• Long-boating through the rainforest, Borneo jungle, Brunei.
• Being watched by hundreds of carved faces, Angkor Thom, Cambodia.
• Not being run over while crossing the street, Vietnam.
• Holding a jellyfish in my hand, Halong Bay, Vietnam.
• Coconut and banana gelato, Rome, Italy.
• Montjuic Font Magica sound and light show, Barcelona, Spain.
• Treasure hunting in the Castle Hill Labyrinth, Budapest, Hungary.
• Riding a camel to the Pyramids, Giza, Egypt.
• Hiking Kosoye lookout, Simien Mountains, Ethiopia.
• Impromptu jazz music drifting down from windows above, Havana, Cuba.
• Driving the Kicking Horse River Valley road, B.C., Canada.
• Hugging giant 800 year old trees, Vancouver Island, Canada.
• Mosey-in’ down Old Trail Town, Cody, Wyoming, USA.
• Seeing the Northern Lights dance overhead on the sea ice of Frobisher Bay, Nunavut, Canada.

Worst Moments

• Finding out I’d been booked on a non-existent connecting flight to LA after ten hours in transit, Washington Airport, USA.
• Breaking out in chicken pox, Mexico City, Mexico.
• Discovering I was eating raw chicken, Cusco, Peru.
• Being soaked and freezing on 12 hour overnight bus to Uyuni, Bolivia.
• Being served grey, unrefrigerated meat that had sat all day on roof of car in a hot desert, Uyuni, Bolivia.
• Arriving to hostel after three days without showers, only to turn on the shower and have no water come out because the water was shut off for the rest of the day, San Pedro de Atacama, Chile.
• Having to change bus stations three times with zero helpfulness from anyone in 45 degree weather with 97 percent humidity and getting heat exhaustion, Miri, Malaysian Borneo.
• Bed bugs. Three times.
• Thinking I would be sent to prison in Jordan after accidentally entering Jordanian territory without a visa stamp at 5am, Amman airport, Jordan.
• 9 hours of vomiting, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
• The overflowing toilet on the non-stop Cairo-Aswan train, Egypt.
• Dirty old men touching and sniffing my hair when I’m not paying attention, Egypt and Mexico.
• Sunburn that felt like someone doused me with gasoline and lit me on fire, Veradero, Cuba.