THE NOT SO BLONDE TRAVEL

Flying standby is stressful for most people.  To me though, it is half fun. It is the reason I once ended up in Korea instead of Japan, and what an amazing vacation that was.  However, three people flying standby from different airports and on different airlines gets a bit tricky. Somehow though, Deidre, Peter and I figured out a flight route that allowed all three of us to land in Vietnam around the same time. We were ready to cry hurray but stopped ourselves when we realized that we needed a visa to be allowed on Vietnamese soil and had less than 24 hours before departure time. Thankfully though since all three of us are American, the Vietnamese Visa Process   only took us 10 minutes online, one quick picture and $45 on arrival. As of Cambodia, I was not the least worried. There was an app  for it, or just $35 on arrival, and voila.  But when one is out of pages on their passport, well things get complicated, really complicated. Even more so...

Being single is fun, but sometimes being the only single person in a group of friends can be a little tiring. It's like they forget that you are a person with a job, hobbies, dreams etc ... All they want to talk about is if you are dating or not, who you are dating and why you are not going on date number 2  etc ... Well sometimes I don't have an answer to all of those questions, and sometimes I just don't feel like talking about it. But it doesn't matter to them. They are in a relationship, they don't get to date, so you become their Carrie Bradshaw and well, I am sure it was fun for Sarah Jessica Parker to play Carrie in Sex and the City but it was a show and this is real life.  And the last weeks in my real life have been crazy. I have been super busy finding an apartment in NYC - not an easy task by any means - and honestly, putting together my bed, my sofa, my coffee table and my multiple dressers has been my priority over going for dinner with...