Summer 2024 My friend Schyler and her husband Emil moved from London to Singapore in late 2022. Once they settled in, my friend Olivia and I planned a visit in summer 2024. What began as another girls’ trip quickly expanded when Olivia’s husband Colin joined, transforming it into a friends’ adventure for the five of us. Singapore is a long journey from the U.S.; I flew from Cincinnati to Chicago, then San Francisco, finally arriving early Monday morning after adjusting to the

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