I decided to start off the year with a two-week trip to the motherland – Kolkata, India. Although my family thought I was crazy Read More »

So many of my friends go to India on a regular basis to visit family, travel, and shop. My family's trips are a little more rare, but this summer I had the opportunity to go back after eight years. Read More »

Over the past 45 days, there have been many times when I feel like an outsider in my own life. I always joke that I fell off the planet for five months abroad. I danced, I explored, I took risks, I was uncomfortable, I ate, I befriended, I asked questions, I got sick, and I loved. From that perspective, I hold no regrets about my trip. However, this level of immersion has made the process of reintegration that much more difficult. Read More »

Every year, I feel as though my attachment to India becomes increasingly stronger. Spending five months studying abroad in Ghana (hence my absence from BG) has forced me to think about my identity in ways that I never had previously. Read More »

After our cross-country trip to Chitwan, Lumbini and Pokhara, we were exhausted. It seemed like we did so much in a matter of few days. It was great seeing places that I had never visited before and it was even better that this experience wasn’t an isolated one. I got to share this with my husband and my parents. Read More »

Pokhara, which was our last destination on the trip, was about five and a half hours away from Lumbini. Therefore, after a quick lunch at one of the resorts in Lumbini; we hopped into our jeep and headed to Pokhara. The journey to Pokhara through Lumbini was beautiful. The roads were definitely narrow but great views of valleys, rivers and terraced hillsides, definitely made our long journey all the way more interesting than I had thought. Read More »

After recovering from the Dashain festival, it was time for Josh and me to take a cross-country trip with my parents. Read More »

I have always enjoyed travelling and everything that surrounds it- from actually planning the trip, processing it and sharing what happened afterwards. And, when it comes to traveling back to Nepal (where I was born and raised); it just makes it even better. This year, I was particularly excited about my travel to Nepal mainly because it was my husband Josh’s first visit there. Josh had heard many stories about Nepal through me and other people, therefore he couldn’t actually wait to get there and discover this mystical land. Read More »

Whilst sitting inside Papa Johns eating my mushroom and cheese pizza and listening to Justin Beiber's "Never Say Never", I almost forgot which country I was in until I went to take a sip of water and realized I couldn't because I didn't know if it was bottled or not. Read More »

If you’re not a veteran air traveler, shuffling in and out of airports and transferring to and from flights is enough to make you justify a splurge on a private jet. Read More »