At 19 years old, I started my travel adventures by interning in a small Indian village of about 1500 near the foothills of the Himalayas. I flew to India by myself, where I stayed for one week in Chandigarh, Punjab. I then took a bus four hours north to a village which had not yet been located on Google Earth. Over the next three months, my coworkers became like family, and I was fortunate enough to travel around India with many of them.
Towards the end of the summer, my cousin Melanie decided to live up to our family’s sense of adventure, and she flew halfway across the world to spend two weeks traveling around India with me. It was unforgettable for both of us, and I hope we have many more chances to take similar trips around the world.
