I’m thrilled to share that my photography article was featured on World Nomads!
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A slideshow of Tarynne’s photos from the first year of our trip around the world.
Jan. 17, 2013 to Jan. 17, 2014.
Seattle, USA to Goa, India.
It took 365 days to create this video.
Over 2,730 photos attempt to illustrate what travel means to me. To forget familiarity, reassurance and dive into adventure. To be thrown into a million or more scenarios that remind you how small you are in this universe, but somehow with tough love remind you its okay to do big things, to dream big. That you are capable of exactly all that your mind is capable of.
Travel is the voyage of discovery. Discover what?
Whatever it is you are looking for. To realize what makes you you, and equally as interesting, what makes others other. To be in someone else’s home and resist the urge to rearrange the furniture and just to let their home be exactly that, theirs.
To learn to be comfortable being uncomfortable. To entertain yourself watching how you grow, adapt, change. To watch your own opinions change, preferences shift, tendencies, values, goals and ambitions more appropriately align with what it is you genuinely want from your life. You’ve removed anything and everything that has ever made you you. Your home, social support, career, clothes, things, car, and any residue and reputation of yesterday. You have no history. Tomorrow is a blank slate. All of these ‘permanent’ qualities that make you you are all changing.
Incredible. It’s an opportunity for anything and everything. To look at every place, person and situation for the very first time.
To travel is to play with your imagination. You dream of what a place and people should be, may be. Travel accurately throws it back at you and tells you straight up how it is. Travel gives you the opportunity to see it how it really is.
I am grateful for my camera as it has helped me to capture what my own eyes see as what is. The moments of humility, gratitude, frustration, abundance, joy, expansion, resistance and growth have been frozen for a fraction of a second and I am so excited to share it with you!
Enjoy. Travel.
Saturday, Dec. 14, 2013
On Saturday afternoon we returned to Lisbon after two weeks of luxury and relaxation at Juicy Oasis. We checked back in to the Lisbon Lounge Hostel and immediately set out to explore the Christmas-decorated streets. Of course, after two weeks of no coffee we had to make a stop at Starbucks for a quick caffeine fix.
With time on our side we leisurely strolled through the streets window shopping and actually shopping for warm clothes for the wintery few weeks ahead.
After we found some prospective winter clothes to buy later in the week, we headed to the grocery store to buy supplies for our first real meal in two weeks.
Back at the hostel we artfully dodged around the Portuguese chef in the kitchen to prepare our meal:
With our bellies finally full of real food, we went back out onto the Lisbon streets for an evening stroll under the brilliant Christmas lights lining the narrow lanes.
After only a few minutes of walking we stumbled upon at light show in Terreiro do Paco. Although the audio of the show was entirely in Portuguese, we still enjoyed the innovative lighting technology and unique presentation.
In the evening the temperature outside had dropped pretty significantly, so we didn’t last long before we had to retreat back to the indoor comforts of the hostel. Fortunately we were able to find a quiet and cosy spot in the upstairs lounge to watch Slumdog Millionaire in preparation for our trip to Mumbai next month.
Sunday, Dec. 15, 2013
We woke up nice and early on Sunday so we could fit in breakfast before embarking on a day-long bike ride along the bank of Rio Tejo to the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. Lucky for me, the Lisbon Lounge serves up some pretty amazing crepes for breakfast every morning, so I stuffed my face with about six of those before we climbed aboard our bikes.
From the center of the Baixa neighborhood we headed back to Terreiro do Paco and turned right, due west along the bank of the river toward the Belem neighborhood. The ride along the river was beautiful and we passed under the Ponte 25 de Abril Bridge on the way to Padrao dos Descobrimentos, a massive monument honoring the past discoveries of the Portuguese navy.
After admiring the massive concrete structure, we hopped back on our bikes and crossed the main road to check out the Museu Colecção Berardo. Of course on the way into the museum Tarynne was able to sniff out a nearby outdoor market, so before going inside we perused the selection of homemade olive oils and roasted nuts.
The museum was pretty cool, and we enjoyed taking our time wandering the hallways looking at the abstract, and sometimes mind-blowing art installations.
From the museum we made a quick pitstop inside Mosteiro dos Jeronimos before continuing down the river to Torre de Belem.
After relaxing on the steps and people watching for about half an hour in front of Torre de Belem, we biked to the nearby ferry terminal for a quick cruise across the river to Tarfaria.
While Lisbon actually sits on the bank of Rio Tejo, Tarfaria is located right at the mouth of the river where it meets the Atlantic Ocean. From the ferry dock in Tarfaria, it was only about a twenty minute bike ride to some of the nicest beaches in the Lisbon area, which face west straight out toward the thundering surf of the Atlantic Ocean.
We were able to spend about half an hour admiring the fading sunlight shimmering of the mighty waves of the evening high tide before we had to get back on our bikes and hustle back to the ferry dock to return to Lisbon.
The sun was just setting when we returned to the Lisbon side of the river and much of our return bike ride was under the bright light of a nearly full moon.
En route back to the hostel we made a stop at a grocery store for dinner supplies. After we cooked up another filling meal, we (or maybe just I) were delighted to find the Seahawks-Giants game playing on a projector in the main living room.
We enjoyed a relaxing time watching the Hawks stomp out the Giants 23-0 before we went for another evening walk around Lisbon in search of candy and chocolate.
Monday, Dec. 16, 2013
On Monday we set out early determined to buy the warm winter clothes we were sure we would need during the next three weeks in Croatia and Turkey. We also had to find Tarynne a long black skirt, long sleeve shirt and head scarf for our trip to Dubai and Abu Dhabi in January.
We basically spent the entire day trying on shirts, skirts, scarfs, jackets, beanies and gloves before we finally settled on the outfits we loved most.
After an exhausting day of shopping we were too lazy to cook anything new, so we just reheated leftovers from the night before and then set back out in search of chocolate for dessert. After finding some cheap chocolate in a small grocery store we found a small square festively decorated for christmas and sat talking by a lighted tree.
Wanting to extend our evening, we went back to he hostel and asked for a chill bar recommendation. We were pointed to a really cool bar in the Cais do Sodre neighborhood.
We enjoyed a few drinks before walking back to the hostel around midnight, weary of our looming 5:30 a.m. wake up and 8:15 a.m. flight to Zagreb, Croatia.
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