Life is a journey

Memorial Day is something that should be celebrated more than just once a year. To me, memories are the most valuable thing you can poses, and remembrance is the highest value that someone can leave once they’re gone. I know that Memorial Day is meant to specifically honor our past and present soldiers, but for me it has more of an impact because of how much it impacted my grandfather; a World War II Ex-Prisoner of War , who before his last days, finally told me to travel. He hadn’t really said it before, in fact, up until his last few months, all I’d ever hear was “When are you moving back home?” or “When are you getting married?” I won’t lie and say it didn’t make me feel bad, especially when I had moved myself across the country and was constantly leaving to go travel to other countries as well. But I always knew it was because he wanted to protect me, just like he had fought to protect our country, even though at the time, h...

That is a look of “WTF just happened.” Ghosts and ghouls ain’t got shit on some of the scary things that can happen when you’re traveling. Especially if you’re someone who travels all the time or constantly seeks adventure like myself and these awesome travel bloggers and experts. It’s not likely that something scary will always happen when you travel (although everyone’s response was, “Oh I have so many stories” ), but let’s be serious, it’s a scary world sometimes, and shit happens. The good news is that when it does, it always ends up making for an awesome story, especially since we are all still here to tell it! So instead of the typical haunted tale, here are a few real-life tales of things that happened when traveling that was scary AF! Jump To: Getting Locked in the Sydney Aquarium Crossing a Crocodile Infested Channel in Kenya Janet Newenham, Journalist on the Run Getting Shot At While Sneaking Across the ...