I found out about Couchsurfing a few months before I started my travels and was dying to try it out. Kind of. I loved the concept and was excited to meet locals from the places I would be visiting, but I was also a little nervous. I mean, I would be sharing a confined space [...]

Good news, Lviv is alive and well! I was worried I might not see the city for what it was because the first time I tried visiting everything was closed down and the streets empty. Luckily the Swine Flu panic that had crippled the place for the first half of November all but disappeared while [...]

Three hours before I was supposed to fly out of Sweden to begin my journey into Ukraine, I received this message from a girl whose couch I had requested to surf in L’viv: I hope u delayed your trip to ukraine for few weeks…It’s an epidemy of swine flu…Not kidding that flu kills people.. So [...]

I got a message today from a friend of mine who has been following my Twitter updates for the past week or so. It read: “Your travel rate is straight up off the hook! What is going on?” Actually, a lot has been going on and my travel rate has not only been off the [...]