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A 24-year-old traveling the world for work and writing about his experiences along the ways. 

Hey there, My name is Zachary. Lately I've been thinking about the direction I want to take with this website. After 2 years of constant change and rebrand, I think I finally know where I want to go: Honest and meaningful. 

Stick around, I've got some stories for you. 

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a Holiday Gift Guide For the flight attendant
​in your life

The holiday season is upon us and so that means I am stressed and broke but I get asked a lot to make a post like this. 

People message me on social media and ask what some good presents would be for a traveler. I have made lists before about what my packing essentials are, but I have never made a gift guide. These are things that aren't necessarily essentials, but convenient and fun items you can get for the traveler in your life. 

dealing with loss when you travel for a living

There are a few things that you leave flight attendant training unprepared for. Six weeks of training packed with everything from applying bandaids to evacuating aircrafts to delivering a baby. There were very few surprises when I first started on the line. 

​One thing that I was unprepared for, was the how often I would be serving passengers that were traveling because of an undesirable situation, and how willing they would be to confide in me as a crew member. Passengers traveling home for funerals. Traveling to say goodbye to a loved one. To be with a family member in a time of need. They come to you, you make them as comfortable as possible, and you make yourself available to them as much they need.

When your dream job takes a serious toll on you

A few days ago I was working a long flight from Denver, Colorado to somewhere in Florida. This specific trip I was assigned to work on the bar cart in economy. It was a long day. I was tired, and a little irritable, and not exactly feeling my spry self. 

When a lady asked for a Coke Zero, I reached for the drawer of the bar cart to grab it. They're always in the back of the drawer, but the drawer was stuck. I knelt down on the ground and yanked and the drawer, but it wouldn't budge. I yanked harder and the whole drawer came flying out forcing me forward and hitting my head on the tray of the bar cart. 

"UGH, I yelled. "I hate this Job."

how to beat loneliness when traveling alone

Last Thursday afternoon, I woke up alone in a king-sized bed in the center of Rome, Italy. I picked up the trip the morning before and I had created a list of things that I wanted to see while on my 24-hour layover in this beautiful ancient city. 

But, I couldn't get out of my bed. It was 2:30 in the afternoon and I couldn't move. It was an undesirable combination of loneliness and depression (and a hit of anxiety) that sneaks up on me every once in awhile.

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