We might be settling into a White Christmas this holiday season.. This past week it snowed in Korea!

GRRR! Shoutouts
This month, I’ve a big list of awesome GRRR!s to send out, so I’m dedicating this post just for that:

•  December’s issue of Daegu Pockets is out in the stands!
My article Haeneyo: the Last Generations of Korean Mermaids is in it! Well, the 500-word count version of it, at least. Also my story was one of the few translated for Korean readers as well; so I’m delighted. As usual, the magazine packs tons of fun stories about happenings in Korea, curious cultural tidbits, essential Daegu maps and a monthly dose of bite-sized Konglish.

•  Warm fuzzies to EPIK.
Yes, they do good for me, even though I occasionally bitch about them. My piece Making a Pilgrimage: The Hike to Gatbawi was selected and will be published to the EPIK site (here), with other documented EPIKer memoirs and journeys. Because of them, I’m finally a paid writer! Yay. Thumbs up to you, EPIK- even though you/the DMOE screwed my vacation plans!

•  Hollers out to Gadling‘s Alex Robertson Textor for mentioning me and my jjimjilbang travel tip in his article, “Local Budget Travel Secrets“. I’m a big fan of Gadling’s travel stories and tips and discovering local budget secrets are great; it’s even better when you can share them with others!

When one person can follow and live their dreams, they create possibility for everyone else…

•  Bigtime GRRR! s to Almost Fearless‘s lovely Christine
(Okay, we’ve got the same name but she’s a completely different GRRRL)
She posted her 100 Most Inspired Travel Blogs and included me in it! Extra hollers because she’s the first to spell my blogname correctly! Overall, I’m very honored. When I first researched how to turn a gap year into live and work abroad travel lifestyle, Christine’s blog was one of the sparks to get my flight dreams out of park. As the pen of Almost Fearless, she shares her success as a digital nomad lifestyle and basically, tells you how you can do it too.