Not Quite Rooted

In my 30's, I've finally come to accept that I don't want to settle down in one place, that I feel most comfortable on the move. I crave the freedom of traveling to new places and getting to know myself within these new contexts.

For the past 10 years I traveled around the world doing human rights and global health work, and I've had the chance to interact with a multitude of different people and different ways of thinking, meeting character after character everywhere I go and laughing non-stop, along the way.

This blog follows my exploits of setting down "loose roots" (those that occur when you live somewhere for 6 months or more) in new countries or new communities around the world in my constant search for that precious moment where I'm suddenly no longer simply the "novel foreigner" but a member of the community.

Thanks for joining me on this journey!