Summer 2018 This was one of my favorite trips ever and really cemented Southeast Asia as one of my top vacation spots. The summer before it actually happened, my friend Morgaine (Mo) and I joked about doing a backpacking trip somewhere cool before we had to “grow up.” I had just finished my first year of law school, and Mo was considering grad school, so we were itching to travel while we still had flexibility. I suggested Southeast Asia—it had always fascinated me, and I’d h

Summer 2015 Summer between sophomore and junior year of college: probably  the best summer of my life. Around Christmas the year before, my best friend and fellow travel bug, Schyler, floated the idea of backpacking around Europe. And so the planning began. Our friend Sam joined in, and we built a few reunions into the trip—meeting up with Marta, our high school’s Spanish exchange student, in Barcelona, and my mom in Berlin before wrapping things up in Prague. We flew into At