Amanda Kingsmith

yoga teacher. world traveler. writer. podcast host.

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Day 8: 5 Things I love about Mexico City

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We arrived in Mexico City only 10 days ago, and I’m already in love with the city. Here are my 5 favorite things about Mexico City so far:

1. Amazing Avocados  

Have I mentioned I have a serious love affair with guacamole, and that avocados take up a good chunk of my food budget at home?

In Mexico, we can get amazing guacamole for an affordable price at nearly all the Mexican restaurants we’ve visited AND we can get amazing, ripe avocados for about half the price as we pay back home.

Hallelujah! I’m not going to go broke because of avocados after all!

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Day 7: Sleeping with a Mouse (Literally!)

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This summer I hiked the West Coast Trail (WCT) on Vancouver Island with 2 girlfriends. It’s a 75km trail of rough terrain that takes 7 days and 6 nights to hike. It was the longest overnight hiking trip I’d ever taken and it tested me both physically and mentally in more ways than I have ever been tested.

I’ll write more about the WCT in another post, but for today, I would like to share about the night I slept with a mouse.

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Day 3: South Korea & Coming Home

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After a rocky month in Taiwan, I was excited to arrive in Seoul for our final week in Asia.

We arrived late at night and we set out to check out the city early the next morning. First stop – getting a SIM card. This proved to be much more difficult than we originally imagined. The language barrier was steep in Seoul and we weren’t able to translate our questions about getting a SIM card because we didn’t have data. After a couple of hours of hunting for a SIM card, we finally found a place that sold them in the metro.

Because Taiwan had less than impressed us right off the get go, I was uncertain about what I would think about Seoul, but I almost immediately liked it. It’s a massive city with a number of different interesting areas to check out.

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