TobyDear readers, friends, internet… I’m back in Blogland. I think I have for some time now unconsciously defined The World as “that which is not […]
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The Wind in my Armpit Hair and Other Uncoventional Pleasures
“It’s like you’re doing the seventies, but in 2013,” my friend said, laughing as I posed in our Istanbul bedroom to display the luxurious dark […]
Links to Latest Article and the TV Interview That Followed
I’ve had an exciting publication recently on Salon-http://www.salon.com/2013/10/07/tales_of_a_female_hitchhiker/ …which led to a TV interview this morning with WGN:http://morningnews.wgntv.com/2013/10/25/woman-describes-challenges-excitement-while-hitchhiking-across-europe/ Getting my foot in the door, one […]
On Going Home
Here I am. London Heathrow International Airport. 1:11pm. Twenty-three degrees Celsius. Gray skies. Eleven months, 21 countries, one visa problem and one stomach bug ago […]
Three, Two, One, BUNGEE
(Sorry, Mom—I know I promised I wouldn’t, but I really think you should be proud of me.) “Do one thing a day that scares you.” […]
Story Time!
The fairy chimneys, as it turns out, were the name that the genius, or over-romantic imagination, of someone in Cappadocia’s tourism department assigned to the […]
Toby and Alyssa Take on Istanbul
For the last six days I had the great pleasure of traveling with the beautiful, brilliant, best of friends, Alyssa Raven Thomas. What a welcome […]
Paradise in Pictures
A typical day on Koh Rong: Wake up to this. Run through the jungle… To this, the “other side” of the island, also known as […]
Escape to Paradise
The universe provides. Yes, she really does, and I will explain the recent series of events that have bolstered my belief in that statement. Three […]
Everything is Possible; Nothing is Free
The hub of my front tire was bent at a worrisome angle. The brakes screeched so loudly they forgot to perform their intended function. The […]