Dame Traveler: Live the Spirit of Adventure by Natasha Yakoub This was so absolutely weird. Why would you want to look at an instagram in book form? The pictures were very pretty, but I would rather just follow the instagram, which I did. Maybe this makes more sense not in a Kindle edition, like a…
To Shake the Sleeping Self: A Journey from Oregon to Patagonia, and a Quest for a Life with No Regret by Jedidiah Jenkins I was so pleasantly surprised by this book in the beginning. I must’ve been recommended it by a travel page while I was half asleep one day because it just appeared in…
Wide-Open World: How Volunteering Around the Globe Changed One Family’s Lives Forever by John Marshal I was so excited to start reading this book because it had so much that appeals to my life specifically, but unfortunately it ended up devolving into the worst aspects of “volun-tourism”. The most telling quote summing up the entire…
The Year of Living Danishly: Uncovering the Secrets of the World’s Happiest Country by Helen Russell The Year of Living Danishly is a smart and fun book about a journalist who moves to Denmark for a year following her husband’s job at LEGO. Denmark is consistently rated as one of the happiest countries in the…
One Girl, One Dream by Laura Dekker I didn’t know exactly what to expect when I began this book but it’s basically a journal or a travel-log of Laura’s journey, and as such, it’s much more interesting in some place than in others. It is divided into sections for each country she lands in and…
A Map for Saturday is an awesome documentary about what it’s really like to be a backpacker. Brook Silva-Braga decides to quit his job and fly out to Australia to begin a year of solo-traveling the world on his $20,000 savings. The documentary includes a lot of interviews from fellow travelers that Silva-Braga meets during…
The Year of Less: How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings, and Discovered Life Is Worth More Than Anything You Can Buy in a Store by Cait Flanders I read a ridiculous amount of books per year so sharing book reviews/suggestions here only make sense. This book is the perfect first review as it…