Before starting Bohemian Trails and pursuing a career in travel writing, I worked a 9-5 job and often found myself craving alone time. I’d leave work and head straight to a concert or fashion event and not arrive to my apartment until after midnight. I’d wake up the next morning and start the same routine. Granted, this routine was exciting [...]
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Bohemian Trails Gets Personal
Going along with the more personal posts I’ve been writing each Friday, I’ve decided to put together a list of 5 travel facts about myself that you probably didn’t already know. I am a Dual Citizen: There are some who would say that I should not be opening admitting to owning two passports but this is one fun fact about [...]
Bohemian Balancing Act
One of the challenges of being bohemian traveler is finding balance between satisfying my wandering cravings and feeling settled in my everyday life. This time last year I was working 9-5 in a city I loved and yet I often found myself day dreaming about where I wanted to travel to next. Since I was no longer enchanted with my [...]
Drop the Excuses and Keep Trekking
This post is by David VanArsdale, one of our contributors. “I want to travel but I don’t have the money.” I wince a little when I hear someone say that because for the most part, I think it’s a bullshit excuse. Granted there are exceptions (especially considering today’s unemployment rate), but if you have a job and are currently using [...]
Defending Hostels
This post is by Kay Boatner, one of our contributors. I blame Hostel. You know, the gory 2005 movie about two kids named Paxton and Josh, and their fellow backpackers traveling around Europe that meet a rather disgusting end in a Slovak—you guessed it—hostel. Until recently, the only hostel I had ever stayed in was in Europe. It didn’t even [...]
Travel as the New Social Clique
After a long but productive day I had come to the realization that I wasn’t going to make it out of my apartment as most people my age would on any given Saturday night. In an effort to clear my head a bit, I turned on the television for a few minutes of mindless stimulation. Saturday nights are never particularly [...]
A Day with the Dolphins
If you asked me at five years old what I wanted to be when I grew up you would have heard something like this: “I want to be a marine mammal trainer and work with killer whales!” A few years later, my Dad traded in an extra day of waiting in Disney World lines to take me to Sea World. [...]
Backpacking: The Bohemian’s Vacation
This post is by David VanArsdale, one of our contributors. I don’t understand the people who buy express passes at amusement parks. They pay extra to skip the lines and walk straight to the roller coasters. Yes, waiting in those zig-zagging lines sucks. Yes, you’re sweating so much that your underwear is sticking to your ass. But I’d argue that [...]
Tips For Learning A (Very) Foreign Language
This post is by Jessica Tiare Bowen, one of our contributors. I’ve always been attracted to the idea of speaking a foreign language: the mystery, the intrigue, not to mention the romance. Unfortunately, the reality always consisted of much less appealing learning methods like long classes, repetitive flashcards, and difficult conjugations. That is until I met a foreign beau. Not just [...]
How to Keep the Feeling of Travel Lust
(article from Megan’s Column, Weekly Wanders on Life2PointOh) Whether we want to admit it or not, romance is often on our minds when we travel, especially during your carefree 20-something years. Even wandering along a dirt road or a crowded street seems more exciting because it is “foreign” and unknown. But let’s face it, we can’t travel all the time [...]
Three Cities Well Worth A One-Way Ticket
(article from Megan’s Column, Weekly Wanders on Life2PointOh) I’m going to take a guess and say that almost every 20-something has considered buying a one-way ticket and flying across the globe. There’s something romantic about the idea of dropping everything and living a different life for however long you decide. Whether it’s our stab at curing a severe case of escapism [...]
Travel Photographer Stephen Govel
This post is by David VanArsdale, one of our contributors. One of the frustrations of traveling is trying to explain your experience when you return home. It can seem like a hopeless task. Which is why Iʼm envious of our current artist of the week, photographer Stephen Govel. All he has to do is show you a slideshow from his [...]
