goKonrad's Yerevan travel blog I've been fascinated by this Armenia's history and culture for a long time. It's one of the oldest nations in the world, with roots from before 1,000 B.C. It is literally and figuratively the bridge from East to West, and has been since the Silk Road. It's dealt with war, invasion, and occupation [...]
How To Make A Difference: Education 250 million children of primary school age lack basic reading, writing, and math skills. Numerous studies have shown how education is one of the leading solutions for people in poor countries to break the cycle of extreme poverty, increase gender equality, encourage better health, promote human rights, and lead to increased peace [...]
Weekly Digest: August 12, 2016 Salem (hello in Kazakh)! Here is your weekly dose of my best tips for how to travel the world while you grow your career and make a difference. Travel the world I signed up for Priority Pass a couple months ago and have loved that decision. It gives you access to [...]
How To Make A Difference: Gender Equality Regardless of your politics, Hillary Clinton’s nomination was a major milestone in the United States. It was the first time a woman was nominated as the presidential candidate of a major party in the U.S. However, don’t start celebrating gender equality yet – it is still atrocious. The female-to-male earnings ratio [...]
Weekly Digest: August 5, 2016 Here's your weekly dose of my best tips for how to travel the world while you grow your career and make a difference. Travel the world Flights are the most expensive part of travel. I recently come across a flight hacking service that was recommended to me by multiple digital nomads: Scott’s [...]
goKonrad's life lessons from travel. Travel changed me. No surprise there, it changes most people. But after nearly 100 countries, 1 million miles, and several years of my life abroad, how has it changed me? What life lessons – for both life and work – did I pick up on the road? I explored this question deeper to determine the life lessons [...]
goKonrad's Beijing travel blog For a major international city, Beijing remains refreshingly authentic, unique, and friendly. The food is as delicious as it is diverse. The city is brilliantly complex and contradictory on every corner. Chinese writer, Lao She, said it well: “filthy, beautiful, decadent, bustling, chaotic, idle, lovable.” I could stay here for years and [...]
goKonrad's Maputo travel blog (Mozambique) Mozambique is one of Africa’s last frontiers. While it can be difficult and time consuming to make your way up the 1,500 miles of coastline, it is well worth it if one has the patience and the perseverance to travel through this long and undeveloped country. I started in Maputo, the [...]
goKonrad's Somaliland travel blog (Somalia) Welcome to Somaliland, the self-proclaimed independent, yet internationally unrecognized region of Somalia. To the outside world, the region is considered part of the non-functioning state most known for its pirates, terrorists, kidnappers, bandits, clashing rival clans, and beloved I’m-the-captain-of-this-boat-now movie lines. While most of Somalia resembles a bad post-apocalyptic movie and [...]
goKonrad's Mexico City travel blog. Mexico City is one of the most underappreciated and misunderstood cities in the world. It often gets a bad rep due to the all-too-common instinct to judge a place from what you knew of it decades ago. Kidnappings, murders, and gang violence were popular activities in the past, but the city [...]
