Nomadic State of Mind

I think I can remember exactly when the travel bug bit me. After spending four months teaching at a primary school in Uganda and being lucky enough to explore Kenya, Tanzania and Zanzibar while at it, I was writing in my diary (how very teenage angst of me) as I sat on the airplane about to fly home about the mixed emotions I felt about leaving. Happy to be going home after a trip full of the highest highs and lowest lows, but super sad to be leaving a country I’d rapidly come to call home. It was the trip where I learnt how to properly travel, how to balance caution with adventure and how to embrace the new while also finding a sense of home in the most unknown of...