Allow me to set the scene - It's February 2020 and I had just officially returned home from the Peace Corps. The world was just learning...

The reality of discomfort is that it helps us grow. There have been, and I anticipate will be, many uncomfortable moments throughout...

I stepped into this experience acknowledging a few truths. The most important being that I could be certain of nothing; that despite...

Hot season. A mid-service volunteer shared that he thought hot season was the best time to arrive at site because by that time, Ramadan...

In a lot of ways today marks an upsetting end and an exciting beginning for every member of my Peace Corps stagier. The beautiful upset...

As if the last few days weren’t enough individually or in combination, the final push to the summit would prove more arduous than I could...

I consider this to be the most physically and mentally exhausting day of the trip. The fabled Barranco Wall greeted us as we were one of...

The landscape undergoes another amazing change – it becomes otherworldly. Picture this – we are hiking on greyish sand on a path that...

I have never been woken up so softly as on this mountain. “Good morning ladies” we would hear accompanied by the light scratching of our...

When we arrived at the gate, we had some time to wait as our group got registered for the hike and we awaited our turn to begin. The...

On the plane into Tanzania, we soared over the snow-capped peak of Mount Kilimanjaro! Greeted in the sky with our first glimpse of this...

Hiking a mountain of this measure along the seven-day Machame route is a task that requires both proper equipment and understanding....

Arriving at the far end of Rocky Mountain at 4:30 a.m. was kind of crazy – traversing the all too familiar landscape in the pitch black...

Reaching the Peak of Flat Top Mountain in Colorado's Rocky Mountain National Park was, admittedly, not what I had set out to do that day....

The camp resides in our rear view as our journey comes to a close. The farther we get away from the once-in-a-lifetime experience, the...

Cotton candied clouds hung lazily above us with a color so vibrant it must have been painted by the imagination of a child. Fluorescent...

At a gas station just outside of Sacred Rock, the burial grounds upon which this mass protest continues, I met Ivan Standing Horse....

“Let us continue to love one another. We have not lost our voices, so let’s advocate ever more passionately for the causes we believe in....

When I arrived to the school, Esther crawled into my lap; it’s the last story time I would spend with her. Connections made were not in...

This is the story of when I left a piece of my heart in Katanga... The taxi lets us off atop an elevated heap of trash looking out over...