*This sunset at Kaanapali Beach on my list night Maui, Hawaii in November 2019 was one of the highlights of the year*

Travel Highlights of 2019!

Jenne Raub December 29, 2019

One of my biggest accomplishments for the year has been resurrecting this blog and getting caught up with a lot of belated posts. On New Year’s Day, I wrote down as one of my goals “update your blog” and it only took me until mid-November to start making it happen. Well, better late than never!

Since starting this blog, I’ve traded in long trips for short ones (one of the big insights from my four months in Southeast Asia was I enjoy having a “normal job”) but I stil have had an amazing year filled with lots of great adventures.

*Women eating lunch at Blue Jaz Cafe, Singapore*

The Lost Art of Eating Lunch

Jenne Raub September 18, 2015

I did something really shocking yesterday. Rebellious, even.

I went for lunch.

*Street art in the Tenderloin, San Francisco*

Greetings from a Radisson near the airport in Portland, Oregon

Jenne Raub September 17, 2015

Greetings from a Radisson Hotel near the airport in Portland. It's nothing you'd want in a hotel, yet everything you'd want in a hotel. It will win no hotel awards. No one famous will ever want to stay here. Its design would appeal to every focus group, and therefore to no individual, for no color can offend, no texture can titillate, no edge can bump the unassuming knee.

It's perfunctory. Banal. Mundane.

And yet, this is where I've been looking forward to being all week.

A Few Things I've Learned in 2 Months of Solo Travel

Jenne Raub June 9, 2015

Last week marked the official halfway point of my four-month trip, so I thought I'd share a few reflections about my trip so far, and what it's like to travel solo as a female out here in our crazy (but basically pretty non-crazy) world. I'm numbering this because it's going to be long and I figured your eyeballs will want some way to break up the words.

1. Internet is not going to work well in some places, and it is going to make you crazy

You are going to have blazingly fast Wifi in some places, and, in others, Wifi that makes you want to throw your iPad out the window in frustration. DO NOT THROW YOUR IPAD OUT THE WINDOW. (I am writing this to remind myself next time I want to hurl my iPad out the window in a Wifi-less rage.)

2. I miss working. And, more amazingly, I miss advertising