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Wild Penguins: The Last Patagonia Chronicle, Part 5

March 17, 2018 by trouncingaround Leave a Comment

Wild Penguins: The Last Patagonia Chronicle, Part 5

Exploiting nature for money is a thing of the past. Yeah not really; but it should be. All across the globe humans are furrowing their brows, concerned about the sustainability of and our effects on wildlife. Muscles were tingling, cinching up somewhere inside as I was surrounded by the “typicals” swiping from photo to photo […]

Tierra Del Fuego, The End of the World: The Patagonia Chronicles Part 4

February 19, 2018 by trouncingaround Leave a Comment

Tierra Del Fuego, The End of the World: The Patagonia Chronicles Part 4

After consuming ungodly numbers of Che Empenadas in El Chalten and getting a little too friendly with another South American Gray Fox near Lake Condido we braved the mangled guardrail road to Ushuaia. It was summer, but apparently the road was too much for many of the international truckers in the rain. Legend has it […]

The Patagonia Chronicles Part 3: A Flamingo, An Ice Wall, A Rock Pile, & An Estancia

January 27, 2018 by trouncingaround Leave a Comment

The Patagonia Chronicles Part 3:  A Flamingo, An Ice Wall, A Rock Pile, & An Estancia

Crossing between Chile and Argentina was little more than a blink of an administrative counter. We got out to lift up a chain and let ourselves over. We had been strategically planning our diesel stops on the map. All plans to purchase and keep a  spare can had run dry. The scrub grass silence was […]

The Patagonia Chronicles Part 2: Is That Really Another Guanaco?

January 20, 2018 by trouncingaround 1 Comment

The Patagonia Chronicles Part 2: Is That Really Another Guanaco?

Puerto Natales is the closest hub of civilization and it’s 80 km to the national park. From our hostel we passed the town’s pride, a massive Milodon sculpture, and later on the cave of the Milodon. I wasn’t even really sure what a Milodon was, but knew it was big, kinda had the body of […]

The Patagonia Chronicles Part 1: Backpacks, Bagualeros, and Torres

January 15, 2018 by trouncingaround Leave a Comment

The Patagonia Chronicles Part 1: Backpacks, Bagualeros, and Torres

The dreaded blue box . . . A plane full of backpackers chatters as we barrel in our silver bullet from Santiago to Punta Arenas. Many were headed to Antarctica. My blood pressure begins to calm since the teenager in the airport aggressively demanded to assess the size of my (and everyone else’s) backpack at […]

Romania, So Much More Than Vampires

December 20, 2017 by trouncingaround Leave a Comment

Romania, So Much More Than Vampires

Can we begin with a creepy, exaggerated laugh of a villain? I’ll be the first shmuck to admit that the reason that we visited Romania was to see Bran Castle– hit Bucharest, tackle some vampires, and get out. But Romania has a way of slapping around silly tourists with this inappropriate attitude. My favorite memories […]

Trouncing Around: This is Kosovo?

November 26, 2017 by trouncingaround Leave a Comment

Trouncing Around: This is Kosovo?

The border agents admitted that the only Americans they were used to seeing were military. Where was I? My daydreams of the dramatic almost cartoon like whistles of bombs dropping and the sounds of crazed secret faxes between Bill Clinton and Milosevic chatter in my mind and come to a screeching halt. “Americans? American basketball? […]

An Entirely Maddening Time in Dubrovnik

October 22, 2017 by trouncingaround Leave a Comment

An Entirely Maddening Time in Dubrovnik

Let me just preface this by saying that I loved the Dalmatian Coast. Visiting a new place is similar to dating. You’re both trying to figure out if you like each other, if you fit together. Dubrovnik was the equivalent of dating an international super model. Despite her beauty, I couldn’t get to know her. […]

Saudade in Portugal

October 8, 2017 by trouncingaround Leave a Comment

Saudade in Portugal

  Portugal will always be the sea. The waters where the Mediterranean meets the Atlantic mirror the sun while violently capping against the limestone cliffs and grottoes of The Algarve. An artistic ambiance rises from the sea foam spray like watercolor splashing over gold and orange cliffs. The Portuguese attribute their notable tolerance of new […]

Funky in Seattle

July 24, 2017 by trouncingaround Leave a Comment

Funky in Seattle

Photos of the lovely Seattle

14 Photos of Montenegro That Will Make You Want to Visit

July 18, 2017 by trouncingaround 2 Comments

14 Photos of Montenegro That Will Make You Want to Visit

A week before my Balkan road trip I sat in a meeting. I didn’t know the man sitting across from me. I didn’t know his name or his official job title, but I knew he outranked me because of the way he carried himself. We scoffed at the latest news about Trump shoving the prime minister […]

Friends to Cuba- Actually, Friends to Cubans

July 15, 2017 by trouncingaround 4 Comments

Friends to Cuba- Actually, Friends to Cubans

If loving Cuba is wrong, then I don’t want to be right. What I especially loved about it were it’s normal, everyday, working class people and the families of the slums. I visited Cuba legally, and hesitated to publish what I learned because of the icy relations of the past that have yet again been […]

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Hi, I'm Katie. 43 countries and (156) ish places with only a backpack, traveler, writer, appreciative free-spirit, eternal learner. Lover of photography, flowers, books, freedom, and new perspectives. Follow me via email up above.

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