Thyra Travels: A Jungle Christmas
Way back before Covid-19 wreaked havoc on the travel community, there was a group of international travelers who all found themselves in the same jungle at the same time. The place was Tayrona National Park in the north of Colombia, at a small hostel called Journey. Over the holidays, the travelers became a close-knit family, watching movies on old mattresses…
Home for Thanksgiving
USA USA USA! As I stood waiting in the snow for the airport bus that would take me home, I started to question my decision-making skills. Why did I decide to come back to the Midwest in November? Seeing snow for the first time in almost two years was thrilling but it was hard to enjoy the experience with numb…
Prague 2019
I spent a weekend in Prague with my friend Vikki, a girl from Kyrgyzstan I lived with in South Korea. She went to college in Prague and is now working for Amazon in the city. Coming from Poland, she picked me up at the bus station (I was two hours late!) and took me to her gorgeous apartment not far…
Thyra Travels: Polish in Poland
Wooooo, we have arrived to the Motherland, the birthplace of the Wysocki half of my life, Poland. I am half-Polish with my last name actually meaning “high” (appropriate since that side of the family is TALL). For the first time in my life, I felt like an elite traveler, as hostels would see my last name and treat me as…
