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Inspired by the book Jitterbug Perfume, I set out to find my perfect cappuccino. I have not traveled much when I was young with my family, only on scholarship. I grew up in a working class household which meant I worked a lot and didn’t travel often. When I was able to, the autonomy and independence was empowering. I want to do it more but for me rather than for work. I know that I have a lot to say with considerable depth. I hate to have this wasted during the apex of my emotional state as a young adult. My inspiration for discovery comes from working as a barista. For years, in order to pay my way through college, I perfected how to make lattes. I found that there is a whole world out there with people who are experts in a lot of things. As I made amazing lattes, architects and businessmen and others took notice of my craft and began opening up about theirs. We spent long breaks discussing the extent of their work and swapping insight to life as people of the old coffee house crews used to. I was in those years classsified an expert in coffee making, among other things, so I decided to find more experts. Coffee is a commonality like tea that everyone has at least topical knowledge in which allows for a easy ice breaker. What I look for is something deeper. I want to discover the topics that are undercover and the people who have stories untold. I want to find the people who have mastered a simple craft that everyone takes for granted. To be able to take pride in something so small leads me to great connections all over the world. It is the culmination of the little things being perfect which lead to an extraordinary life. So far, my book has taken me to switzerland, France, Belgium, Germany, Prague, China, California, Boston, New York, Montana. I have met many interesting and intelligent people. I find that my story comes together every time I come back home, however. In my ‘stateside’ edition I keep gravitating back to what I already know; there is fluidity of love as a story ebbs and flows with every subtle pattern drawing me forward to understand further what a love I carry and hold by comparing it to those people of other cultures with stories untold.