jackie_travels

A blog about travel, humor, & the blisters I sustain during my quests for adventure. I mention my cat bi-postly.

Jackie Does (or will do, at some point) Los Angeles

I never really gave this city a chance when I was growing up here. “It’s a monster,” I always tell people whenever they ask me to describe it. I do maintain that — Los Angeles is a unique,...

Apr 30, 2013 Like

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Jackie Makes Friends on the Internet

I am probably 20% social and 80% hermit. Many of my closest friends are people I’ve known since I was very young, and the others are mostly from college (where I was forced to make new friends...

Apr 22, 2013 Like

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Jackie and the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad Ride

I rode my first train when I was twenty one, traveling from Cannes to Paris via Nice. I had barely slept the night before — a good friend, one very absorbing chat, and a large bottle of champagne...

Apr 9, 2013 Like

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Cleveland in my Heart

There are certain trips you hope you never have to take. My parents leave this morning on one of those trips. A few days ago my dad’s younger brother suffered from a stroke and, to our extreme...

Apr 6, 2013 Like

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On Picasso, Malaga, Chronology, and Unpacking

I moved back here a month ago and somehow I’m still not done unpacking. I keep finding books that I shoved into random boxes in an effort to evenly distribute the weight of all my belongings. In...

Apr 1, 2013 Like 1 person likes this

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Taking a Seven Hundred Minute Breather in Los Angeles

I need a minute. So much has happened already in March that I can’t even believe it’s only about halfway over. I need a minute — or, preferably, about seven hundred of them — to catch my breath....

Mar 19, 2013 Like

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Grand Canyon Photographs (with captions by a few complete strangers)

Any Americans out there remember that show “Kids Say the Darndest Things”? As I’ve gotten older, the implication that only kids can say hilarious things seems stranger and stranger to me. You...

Mar 14, 2013 Like

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An American Proverb: Let Go or Be Dragged

I spent five days of the past week in a car. By myself. I was driving from Chicago, Illinois to Los Angeles, California — just over 2,000 miles. I made this drive in the opposite direction almost...

Mar 6, 2013 Like

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Giving the Thumbs-Up in an Orange Jumpsuit (and other glimpses of Nicaragua)

We spent just under two weeks in Nicaragua, mostly on the Corn Islands. I would’ve loved to stay longer, but, as mentioned previously, things didn’t exactly go as planned on this trip. Since the...

Feb 20, 2013 Like

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Guatemala City in Three Acts

(I wrote most of this the day before Sarai Sierra, the American woman traveling alone in Turkey, was found dead. I’ve read several bloggers’ responses to both this tragedy and the bad press that...

Feb 15, 2013 Like

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On Trips Not Going According to Plan

My initial thought about my trip to Central America was this: it was an exercise in literally nothing going the way I thought it would. It was a strange month. Going into it, I had known that I...

Feb 12, 2013 Like

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I will write more detailed posts about the things I experienced on this recent trip to Central America, but for now while I’m recovering and getting organized (read: catching up on my two issues of...

Feb 5, 2013 Like

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Martha Gellhorn’s Mexico

When I was 21 years old and learned that one of Martha Gellhorn’s favorite places on earth was Mexico, I was disappointed. It was nothing against Mexico itself – it’s just that of all the places in...

Jan 25, 2013 Like

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Thoughts: Central America Stomach

I have “Central America Stomach.” That’s what I’m calling it. It’s a legit name, apparently, because it actually yields results when I Google it. It began on the morning we boarded the bus from San...

Jan 16, 2013 Like

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2013: The Awkward Post-Mayan-Calendar Moment

The world didn’t end on December 21st but, luckily, 2012 ended like it was supposed to, and so all of our reflecting and soul searching can still be put to good use: we get to start over again with...

Jan 2, 2013 Like

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Thoughts: Traveling With All 5 Senses

If you forced me to choose between music and literature or music and visual art, I wouldn’t choose music either time. Yeah, I know. I am the only person. I love music, don’t get me wrong, but I’m...

Dec 18, 2012 Like

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Places: The Greyhound Station at 7am

I’ve never woken up in jail after being picked up in the middle of the night during a particularly unruly drinking excursion, but I imagine the experience would have been as strange as the time I...

Dec 11, 2012 Like

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Thoughts: Only 24 Year Old on the Bus

My age has never factored more into my traveling experiences than it did when I was traveling this fall. In September, I participated in my first press trip (to Israel). Not only was I the only one...

Dec 5, 2012 Like

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Places: My Little Corner in Troncones, Mexico

This past month, I took myself on vacation. A legitimate vacation. I wanted to do something that did not involve hostels, scary showers, or cheap, awful food. I wanted room service. I wanted to sit...

Nov 29, 2012 Like

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FriFotos: Grateful (A Thank You Gift from Edinburgh)

I spent September of 2010 in Edinburgh, Scotland, participating in a travel writing program. I had just graduated from college that June and my parents had given me a little bit of money as a...

Nov 23, 2012 Like

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Thoughts: Why People Wave at Trains

I guess people actually wave at anything, really — trains, boats, buses, trolleys, parade floats, the mail truck. Anything that moves, contains people, and has a window. When I rode the train...

Nov 19, 2012 Like

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Places: The Travel Section in Barnes & Noble

I have become a regular here. This is because the cafe at Barnes & Noble has become one of my favorite places to write: it provides excellent people watching opportunities, it’s never too crowded,...

Nov 13, 2012 Like

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Thoughts: Why I Spend My Money on Traveling

For the past two years, I have spent March(ish) to September(ish) working 9 to 5, making enough money to pay my rent, buy my groceries, pay my bills*, and have a minor social life. From October to...

Nov 9, 2012 Like

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Places: The places I’m headed next!

Yeah I know, this is kind of a cheap use of this “places” category, but hey, these are exciting times and exciting times call for cheap celebration! Behold, my upcoming journeys into the unfamiliar...

Nov 5, 2012 Like

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Thoughts: Visiting people rather than places

I will attempt to keep us on the outskirts of mushiness with this post, but I can’t promise anything. With the amount of times I’ve accidentally cried in public, in my car, and into various...

Nov 1, 2012 Like

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Places: Girl Scout Heaven in Savannah, Georgia

Juliette Gordon Low founded the Girl Scouts in 1912, and she became one of my favorite people of all time in 2012. When I took the tour of her childhood home in Savannah two weeks ago and began to...

Oct 30, 2012 Like

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FriFotos: Golden Oldies (Pictures from my first trip abroad)

(Frifotos is a weekly photo forum on Twitter. This week, the theme is “gold,” hence why I am posting some “golden oldies” taken during my very first international trip. This is as clever as I could...

Oct 26, 2012 Like

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Books: The Gastronomical Me, MFK Fisher (Part 1)

I almost dog-eared every page of this book — every sentence this woman writes is wonderful and should be quoted over and over again every single day. Or at least once a week. You will be seeing...

Oct 21, 2012 Like

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Thoughts: Why do I keep taking 20+ hour train rides?

Short answer: I have no earthly idea. * Long answer: It’s difficult to elaborate on something when you have no earthly idea why you do it. The easy answer would be money: last year I took a train...

Oct 18, 2012 Like

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Jackie Does (or will do, at some point) Los Angeles

Jackie Makes Friends on the Internet

Jackie and the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad Ride

Cleveland in my Heart

On Picasso, Malaga, Chronology, and Unpacking

Taking a Seven Hundred Minute Breather in Los Angeles

Grand Canyon Photographs (with captions by a few complete strangers)

An American Proverb: Let Go or Be Dragged

Giving the Thumbs-Up in an Orange Jumpsuit (and other glimpses of Nicaragua)

Guatemala City in Three Acts

On Trips Not Going According to Plan

Central America in Lists

Martha Gellhorn’s Mexico

Thoughts: Central America Stomach

2013: The Awkward Post-Mayan-Calendar Moment

Thoughts: Traveling With All 5 Senses

Places: The Greyhound Station at 7am

Thoughts: Only 24 Year Old on the Bus

Places: My Little Corner in Troncones, Mexico

FriFotos: Grateful (A Thank You Gift from Edinburgh)

Thoughts: Why People Wave at Trains

Places: The Travel Section in Barnes & Noble

Thoughts: Why I Spend My Money on Traveling

Places: The places I’m headed next!

Thoughts: Visiting people rather than places

Places: Girl Scout Heaven in Savannah, Georgia

FriFotos: Golden Oldies (Pictures from my first trip abroad)

Books: The Gastronomical Me, MFK Fisher (Part 1)

Thoughts: Why do I keep taking 20+ hour train rides?

Places: the King David Lounge at JFK Airport

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