Now that I’ve been back in the States for a couple of months I find that some of my well-honed travel habits went AWOL on me and just disappeared without asking me if I was ready to part ways.  You see, I never lose anything on the road (truly haven’t left anything behind) yet in the past two months I’ve misplaced sunglasses, wallets, keys, and power cords for sometimes days while I’m living out cozy bedrooms at the hospitality of my friends.
In fact, my friends consistently joke that I …

As I was jumping, wiggling, tugging and contorting my body into a ballet of ridiculous postures to pull the wetsuit over my damp skin my instructor and I went over our plan for the day’s dives as he also explained some of the fish I was about to see.
Trumpet fish and crabs, eel, barracuda, and a toad fish—they were the guaranteed sightings in the warm waters off the coast of Honduras that I hadn’t yet seen. But Ethan didn’t mention the lionfish until after the first two dives and …

These past four months in Central America have been four of the hardest “travel” months of my life. I’ve been on the road for just under 18 months at this point and Central America has thoroughly exhausted me and essentially kicked my traveling ass.
I didn’t make a secret of that fact two weeks ago when I was frustrated beyond belief, sad, overwhelmed and just bone-tired of it all. It seemed like the Universe was conspiring against me, the gods of travel were just telling me to go home.
And …

A big Happy Mother’s Day to all of the mothers out there who happen to find this message, and my own as well!
A happy Sunday to the rest!
News from the Site
I am currently diving in Honduras and head back stateside for a wedding at the end of the month. Apologies this past week, the site had a pretty bad virus on it for several days and although the structure is not totally back to normal, it’s completely safe to surf once again!
Also, a big huge thanks to the kind …

Two years ago, nearly to the month, I stumbled across a blog that, quite literally, changed my life.
They dubbed themselves “The Lost Girls” and they were three women who quit their jobs in NYC to travel around the world together for an entire year…and what’s more, they documented the entire trip on their blog several years before other women travel bloggers were doing the same.
It was revolutionary to me. Women could do this? Like actually take off from the US for a whole year to travel?
Their blog came at …

Another week down, and I am actually incredibly content – I love Guatemala. Really and truly loving the culture in thsi country and all of the colorful clothes and blankets and jewelry – it just makes me smile to see all of the happily random pairings – hand woven skirts in brilliant blues layered with delicate green lace and topped with chunky red beaded jewelry – what fun!
As for news on the site, some fun things are happening on the back-end, a neat indie guidebook company has asked me …

It is high time that I do an update of sorts since it’s been quite a few weeks – and in that amount of time a lot has happened for me, and a whole lot in the travel community.
First off a thanks to everyone who reads the site, and an apology for slacking lately. I’ve been weary; it’s the best word I can think of to describe it – this travel site and I needed a little break. I’m back in the saddle though and wanted you to know …

About a month ago Brian from No Debt World Travel contacted about the launch of a new guide he wrote (and he provided me with a free copy of the e-book). Titled the same as his site, I was enthused to review his guide, No Debt World Travel, and share my thoughts here on A Little Adrift – because I figured – hey, a lot of RTW newbies find my site and wouldn’t it be just swell to tell them how they can travel the world without debt.
Interestingly enough, …