Mindful Meggie (they/them)

Neurodivergent traveler promoting mental health with travel resources and stories. Featured on Lonely Planet, Fodor's, Skift.

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@Shasko Would be great if Ecuador has it! 🇪🇨 I think it's making waves in South America, especially because Brazil passed the Sunflower into law. That's the highest I've ever heard the Sunflower go!

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Traveling with a hidden disability like ADHD, autism, or hearing loss?

I updated my Sunflower Lanyard post to better explain how it supports you at airports and airlines. I share my experiences as a lanyard user with OCD through four continents!

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In this pic, me trying to hide the fatigue from my face. Hope it worked 😂

Shortly after, I threw up several times due to a stomach bug from unclean food. It's totally unrelated to the lanyard or hidden disability scheme :P

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@ErielleSudario It took you this long 😛

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I'm starting the New Year with regret. I'm agonized about my mistake. I can't undo it. But regret isn't a bad thing. If anything, I have a plan to redeem and improve myself. Hint: It involves mental health therapy and spirituality. A new year, a new me. https://t.co/uFbCLyK8sU

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Back to blogging!

I love Asian family dynamics. The original plan was for me to stay overnight with my cousins. I ended up being there for three days. How did it turn out this way?🤪

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Maria Martell, Leanna Hall, Heather MacDonald, Mommy, Avagail Lozano, Annie Sisson, @JeffGoins, @UnboundMerino, Stephanie Lay.

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[THREAD] Week 5 for England study abroad:

I'm thinking about my very home base. It was where I lived and took classes if I wasn't on a field trip with my student group.

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Annette, Kayla & Brendan, Bac Dung, John Cao, Mike & Jennifer Rumbaugh, Chu Thi and Aunt Janet, Uncle Gordon, Bac Khanh & Bac Thoa, Co Hang Cao, Elizabeth (Liz) & Thai, Jennifer Chapman, Mira Nguyen, Jada Ach, Chu Hao, Ba Gai, Ba Be, Christopher Nguyen, Ba Dung, Steve, Sophia,

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Thank you to those who have supported my study abroad education through fundraising! Co Minh and Bac Tuan, Janda, Yvonne, Kristina Vorwald, Arianna Samaniego, Tina Kashiwagi, Bac Ngoc & Bac Tuong, Krystal Ramirez, Bac Chi, Melanie, Co Tuyet Anh, Co Be, Co Lan & Co Dao, Co Hang,

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When my British friends visited me yesterday, they brought their own "bantering" onto me. Although Harlaxton Manor was my home and not theirs, I felt they had more control than me! I felt as though they were trying to take back their manor for their country! 😛

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For all his working life, Stevens has kept up his professional, dignified image as a butler. But now he has to adapt to his new American employer's joking small talk, which Stevens calls "bantering."

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This parallels with Kazuo Ishiguro's novel, The Remains of the Day. The main character, a dignified English butler named Stevens, has to navigate the changes at his workplace, Darlington Hall. Like Harlaxton Manor, it was ex-British/currently American owned.

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The Harlaxton Manor was once owned by a rich British guy. But for the past 50 years, it has been an American institution housing study abroad students from the USA.

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Maria Martell, Leanna Hall, Heather MacDonald, Mommy, Avagail Lozano, Annie Sisson,
@JeffGoins, @UnboundMerino, Stephanie Lay.

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[THREAD] Week 4 for England study abroad:

My class visited the coastal town of Whitby, England, just off the North Sea.

One of the dares posed by my professors? Swim in the cold North Sea! So that I did... but not for very long!

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Annette, Kayla & Brendan, Bac Dung, John Cao, Mike & Jennifer Rumbaugh, Chu Thi and Aunt Janet, Uncle Gordon, Bac Khanh & Bac Thoa, Co Hang Cao, Elizabeth (Liz) & Thai, Jennifer Chapman, Mira Nguyen, Jada Ach, Chu Hao, Ba Gai, Ba Be, Christopher Nguyen, Ba Dung, Steve, Sophia,

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Thank you to those who have supported my study abroad education through fundraising! Co Minh and Bac Tuan, Janda, Yvonne, Kristina Vorwald, Arianna Samaniego, Tina Kashiwagi, Bac Ngoc & Bac Tuong, Krystal Ramirez, Bac Chi, Melanie, Co Tuyet Anh, Co Be, Co Lan & Co Dao, Co Hang,

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At least one of those crewmembers decided he would rather die in the sea than be the victim of the mysterious monster.
What was worse? The cold sea or a coldblooded vampire? I think it would be the cold sea, but you tell me.

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My chilly plunge reminded me of Whitby as an integral setting for Bram Stoker's horror story, Dracula. It was here where the vampire first set foot in England.
Dracula was a stowaway on a ship coming into Whitby. No crewmembers survived.