Oct 3, 2019
Lucerne to Milan 🐗🌿🍃☘️🐂🐑🦚🌿💫 counter act all the city smoking. #euroadventures #pasturedlife #countryside #swisscountry https://www.instagram.com/p/B3JYy7GhveK/?igshid=ithyebnj92jx
seen from United Kingdom
seen from Türkiye
seen from China
seen from Malaysia
seen from India
seen from China
seen from China
seen from Italy
seen from Canada
seen from China
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from China
seen from Malaysia
seen from United States
seen from Australia
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from Australia
seen from Russia
Lucerne to Milan 🐗🌿🍃☘️🐂🐑🦚🌿💫 counter act all the city smoking. #euroadventures #pasturedlife #countryside #swisscountry https://www.instagram.com/p/B3JYy7GhveK/?igshid=ithyebnj92jx
Day 11
Missing home and missing family and missing out on the fourth for the first time but also laughing harder than I've ever laughed before and getting to see historical places that mean more to me than any firework ever could
Day 10
Venice is beautiful and I love all my pals on this trip
//Brussels, Belgium
Why people hate Americans
America. To a majority of the world: the land of the free, the lazy and the fat. It was right here, lost in Santorini, that I got my very first America trash talkin’ smackdown.
I don’t know if i’ll ever forget his words. "All you do is take and take. This is why we hate you. I hate Americans. Do you understand?"
The old, weathered Greek man looked at us so intensely almost to make sure we didn't forget his words. And then he added a, "what do you think this is, Iraq?" which just made my head spin with confusion even more than it already was. So naturally, my inner journalist came out of vacation mode and I just needed to know...why? I immediately went back to my hostel looking for answers. The girls I met from Chile and Argentina tried to answer this big question (only through speculation, they assured me).
Some of their reasons were as simple as: Americans can be very ignorant. "They expect people to speak English a lot of the time and don't even try to learn the language out of respect. The least you could do is learn ‘hello, goodbye and thank you in their language.’” Then they started to go a little deeper as they tried to explain that sometimes, when people “hate” Americans, they are really displaying disdain towards our government and their choices. I picked up a note of this with the “Iraq” comment the angry Greek man casually slipped into our lovely conversation.
What I don't understand is, as an American, I am not my government. I cannot speak for for their actions or the rest of the offenses the people of our country commit. Yes, I do have my extreme spouts of laziness where all I want to do is watch 5 seasons of Doctor Who and eat Cheetos BUT who are you to judge me on my day off?? I am one out of hundreds of millions of unique Americans, all living different lives in different ways. Although we live in a free and democratic US of A, each American does not act as an arm of the government nor do we have anything to do with a lot of the decisions and actions of our government. We all have our own struggles, different as they may be, just like people all over the globe. So if you ever find yourself a part of this very awkward confrontation just remember, it’s nothing personal. (Unless of course you’re an ignorant jerk. In this case, STOP BEING A JERK, YA JERK.)
Madrid, Spain
After saying goodbye to Italy about a year ago, I didn’t think I would be back for a very long time. But here I am back in this foreign land under the silhouette of Mount Vesuvius. First adventure, the Isola di Capri.
And with that, guess which insatiable traveler is back in Italy...