It didn’t seem right for me to fake travel to Afghanistan earlier in my project, given the political upheaval and regime change. But there are so many great Afghan restaurants in my area, I decided it made sense to support one of them. There was also a film I wanted to watch and author whose…
Last year, I meant to fake travel to China in honor of the Lunar new year, but I completely forgot that plan and fake travelled to India instead. This year, I was determined not to forget—and I didn’t! I missed out on my library system’s dragon dance performance this year, due to room/space limits, but…
In January, I headed south of the border for my fake travel trip—not to the South Carolina attraction, but to my own fake Mexico experience at home. I had a nice, enjoyable trip to start the calendar year off right. My Choices Meal: There is no shortage of Mexican restaurants near me from which to…
I ventured into H-Mart for the first time ever. A new H-Mart store opened near me about a year ago, but I had never gone in. Choosing South Korea as my destination for December gave me the perfect excuse to force myself to explore it. There was definitely a lot of food with which I…
I’m not sure why Greece didn’t make my first list of potential counties to which to travel. My high school mascot was a Spartan, so Greece deserved to be more than an afterthought. Luckily, it came up in a discussion I had with a friend, and she thrust a book from Greece upon me to…
I’m a little late in blogging about my October Travel from Home trip, but I fake traveled to the country of Peru. The hardest part of it for me was the food. There’s a Peruvian restaurant within walking distance from my house, and there are another dozen or so close to where I live and…
In September, I participated in the Slapshot Readathon and got the idea to read the new book Hockey Night in Kenya. So I decided I would fake travel to Kenya for my monthly trip. Finding a restaurant with specifically Kenyan food necessitated driving about an hour and a half to another state, so it was more…
Once again, a book dictated the country I chose to fake travel to. In August, I traveled from home to Vietnam in August 2021. I had another tough time acquiring the food. While I could probably have gone to H Mart, I don’t trust my ability to cook tofu and make it taste decent. I…
I was deciding between fake traveling to Peru or to Brazil in July. The deciding factor ended up being a book set in Brazil that I desperately wanted to read. So I spread my travel from home trip to Brazil over two days (though it took me until early August to finish the book). My…
This month, my travel from home trip was to the great white north: Canada. A friend sent me a Canada photography book for my birthday for my fake travels, which I actually read a week or so earlier than the rest of the trip. It’s been many years since I last visited Canada, but the…
A friend once asked me how I choose which countries to fake travel to. Often, it starts with the food. As I’m a terrible cook and have no disposable income, I have to choose travel destinations with food options that I can easily acquire. Australia proved to be an interesting challenge on that front. When…
It started with the realization that I could indulge my love for Fredrik Backman’s stories if I fake visited Sweden, so I put it next on my list of travel from home destinations. There is an IKEA near enough to me that I could conveniently pick up food from their food market as well. The…
As St. Patrick’s Day is this month, and because I’m part Irish, I decided March would be the perfect time to fake travel to the emerald isle. I had so many choices before me when I began planning my travel from home trip to Ireland that I ended up making a whole weekend out of…
I forgot that I wanted to fake visit China in February in honor of the Chinese Lunar New Year, and by the time I remembered, I was already halfway through my Bollywood movie. So I’ll just have to do China next year for the year of the tiger. Because my sister was adopted from India, I…
Scotland is possibly my favorite country (apart from my own). I used to have a map of the country on the wall above my bed. I’ve always wanted to celebrate Burns Night, but going to a Burns Night supper was definitely not in the cards this year. So I threw my own celebration and traveled…
For weeks, I debated about what to do for my December trip. I wanted something appropriate for the time of year and thought seeing the Northern Lights from Alaska might be a good option (it’s on my bucket list to go see them for real one day). But after talking with my friend from Alaska,…
I was looking forward to sushi for almost a month before I finally managed this travel from home trip to Japan. The evening felt like a wonderful treat! My Choices Meal & Sweets: I bought some vegetarian sushi and then splurged on vegetarian dumplings as well. About ten minutes before I was planning to eat,…
Honestly, going to Germany for Oktoberfest has never been on my bucket list. As I don’t drink or eat meat, my celebration of Oktoberfest turned out to be much different from the typical experience (but perhaps just as carb-heavy). According to my family tree, I should be about a quarter German. According to a DNA…
My Harry Potter group hosts a tea every year. This year, we shared tea virtually on board the Hogwarts Express on the way to Hogwarts at the beginning of September. I took the opportunity to incorporate that into a travel from home trip to England. Tea Time It was difficult choosing just a few things…
Because I had some pasta I wanted to try, my next travel from home destination was Italy. I had planned to “travel” last Saturday, but the movie I had ordered from Netflix DVD did not arrive when it was supposed to. My First Trip Because I had been looking forward to the fake trip, I…
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