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Age:

19

Gender:

Female

If you must know:

I'm single

Travel status:

Traveling now

Hometown:

Los Angeles

Currently in:

Thailand

Traveling Next:

Southeast Asia (7 months)

Favorite places I've been:

Merida, Delos, Mahale, Tanzania, Florence.

Places I want to go to:

Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Sr Lanka, Myanmar, Nepal, India, Egypt, Morocco, Senegal, Zanzibar, Italy, Greece, Spain.

About me:

I'm a student, I love to travel, I'm a caffeine junkie, and definetely NOT a morning person. I'm going to be spending the next several years studying anthropology and traveling as much as possible. My friends tell me I'm outgoing and brave, but I don't believe them.

Profile URL:

http://matadortravel.com/travel-community/noellejt

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Tunes I rock out to:

... anything and everything. (So long as it isn't country.) Seriously, though, I love music and, given the right mood and setting, love everything from Bollywood soundtracks and old jazz and blues to hard metal. (Indie and oldies probably make the playlist most often.)

Travel style:

I don't like to "plan" so much as arrange contingencies. I'll try (almost) anything once and I like to see all sides to a place - the museums, historical monuments, beaches, shops, parks, discos, clubs, bars and (of course!) restaurants. I try to incorporate some sort of volunteer work and cultural exchange into my trips for the selfish reasons that it makes me feel better about being a tourist and because its incredibly interesting.

Languages spoken, other than English:

(some) French

Before I die I'd like to:

- dance to zydeco in the streets of New Orleans at 3am
- see dawn at the Grand Canyon
- scuba dive the Great Barrier Reef
- parachute off an airplane
- sleep in a hammock on a boat on the Amazon
- see the rainforest canopy from above
- spend five hours or more in a cafe in Prague, drinking red wine and talking
- be competent enough in at least three languages to have conversations in all of them consecutively
- have multiple academic papers published in disparate disciplines
- have a conversation in sign language with a chimpanzee or gorilla
- drive from Alaska to Cape Horn in a car with a built in bookcase
- swim with (a) dolphin(s)
- hang work in an art show
- ride a boat all the way up/down the Nile
- work as a bartender and/or tattoo artist while in grad school
- climb Kilimanjaro/Everest on a whim (well, at least some of the mountain)
- learn to dance

Let's collaborate:

Travel with me? (I'm always ready to meet up - be it for a cup of coffee or a week-long adventure.)

My links:

http://www.noellejt.net

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by Ross | 2008/03/14

Welcome back. Hope you're feeling better! And if you get your wisdom teeth yanked in Bangkok please write about it! Suerte...

Settling In

By noellejt | Location: Nepal | 07/04/08 | Pics: 0

First things first: I've changed my tickets - delayed my return home for a week. I'll be back on July 27th (instead of the 18th) - it's only nine extra days, but it will give me a chance to do some exploring outside of Kathmandu without neglecting my work here.

Life has settled into a pleasant...

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... and now...

By noellejt | Location: Malaysia | 05/09/08 | Pics: 0

So I'm not at Danum anymore.

The second day there I started – and I swear I'm not making this stuff up and that I'm not a hypochondriac whatsoever – coughing up blood.

There's some signs of ill health that you can easily brush aside as the cost of travel – an infrequent cough, a bit of extra...

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Moral of the story: Southern Laos is gorgeous.

By noellejt | Location: Malaysia | 05/04/08 | Pics: 0

Tadlo - on the Bolaven Plateau in Southern Laos: beautifully pastoral, gorgeous waterfalls, cute children, and a five-day party (Pi Mai Lao!)

Don Khon - one of the Four Thousand Islands in the Mekong between Laos and Cambodi (Don Khon is on the Laos side - the smallest/quietest of the three...

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