It's the little things you find yourself doing on this trip that is not a part of your everyday life at home. Along with showering in narrow stop watch showers, low water flow pressure and jammed shower doors, another way of life you must adjust to in hostels is doing laundry. Yesterday, I had run out of underwear, so here I am washing my underwear in the sink with a bar of soap. I now am hanging all my panties on the shower hooks to dry in our community ba...

When traveling in hostels, you become an expert in working with what you've got. The showers have a button you push and every thirty seconds the water flow stops. You learn to wash your hair quickly and as the week goes on, you stop shaving all together. It's entirely way too time consuming to have to hit the button that many times just to have smooth legs. You let your hair air dry instead of running downstairs to put a deposit on a hair dryer. Wrinkles on you...

Today I woke up and all my seven roommates were still asleep. They had gone out to the club the night before and I had stayed in. This was nice because I got to shower and get ready in slow motion this morning. I ate breakfast alone and suddenly became nervous. What if the beginning of my trip was filled with fun new friendships and the last leg I was a loner? I headed down for the free walking tour provided by our hostel. If anything, I still needed to get a fee...

Just when I thought I couldn't be moved like I was in Italy, I'm presented with a new surprise. I was unpacking my things in my new hostel and I heard one of my favorite songs by Adele coming from outside my room. A song I often play on repeat when I'm on my patio in San Diego is "Someone like you" by Adele. I think everyone can relate to this song. For me, I do because someone I once loved moved on and got married. Even though it had been years since we've...

I arrived in Spain and had a feeling of uncertainty running through my body. I was excited but I already missed my friends in Italy. Leaving Italy happened all too fast and it hadn't sunk in just yet that it was all over. The airport in Barcelona was the nicest airport I had ever been to. I travel all over the U.S for work so was a pretty good judge of a nice airport. The Barcelona Airport was extremely modern. Everything from the tile on the floor, to the ...