Good morning Tokyo!
Flower from my @lyft driver and chocolate from my @airbnb host. Feeling the love from the sharing economy
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Speaking at Microsoft’s startup incubator
Looking forward to speaking on a panel at Microsoft BizSpark tonight in Mountain View about Community Development at Airbnb!
Excited to join the conversation about community and design alongside Klout, Babelverse, Learn Capital and Sumazi.
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#airbnb
#community
#bzlabs
#bizspark
A free bird leaps
on the back of the wind
and floats downstream
till the current ends
and dips his wing
in the orange sun rays
and dares to claim the sky.
-Maya Angelou
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scenes from an SF sunday @tantlam
Emerged from the jungle relatively unscathed.
Counting 4 monkey bites and 70+ mosquito bites as a win.
Plus one libre soul.
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When I was last in Peru two years ago, I scaled Macchu Picchu and found myself deep in the jungle on a journey of self-discovery.
Winding my way back there today to let the jungle work its magic.
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It takes the cool morning mist on the island to blow out the city in my heart.
I spend all year forgetting who I am until I can get the magic to weave myself back together again. Almost every summer I have sat in the same place waiting for the island to put me back together. And it does, everytime.
Katie Wisdom, Magic on the Rock
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Travel soul mates
In 2002, face in hands and sobbing uncontrollably, I was approached by a Canadian boy (as was evidenced by a small flag on his backpack) in the Frankfurt am Main Airport. “Are you okay? Do you need help?” he asked. I explained that I was en route to Madrid as part of a student exchange program and had made a huge mistake. My then boyfriend had slipped a handheld recording device into my carry on. The voice on the tape blurted “I love you”.
Two years later I returned to Spain to visit my friends. After a day of walking around the Alhambra and feasting on tapas, we danced to the songs of musicians we had stumbled across in a square. The figure walking towards me was blurry but I recognised his voice. “The airport in Germany!” he announced. We talked about coincidences and parted ways.
In 2006, I spent 5 months traveling through India. Arms out, spinning on the white marble of the Taj Mahal, I was interrupted by him again. “You’re kidding, right?” he said. We spoke, this time more awkwardly, about the size of the world and again parted.
Two years later, I was saying my goodbyes in Toronto. I would be moving to Berlin the following week and we had a table in the back of Ted’s Bar on College Street. Moving through the crowd, arms above head, I held a bottle and two glasses in each hand. “Soul mate! You’re my soulmate!” he bellowed from across the room. That night I learnt that he was a photographer and that we had several friends in common. When it was time to leave I shouted “Brazil 2010!” in his direction and winked once before exiting. I never made it to Brazil but have heard through the grapevine that his photos of Rio are unbelievable.
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have suitcase heart…will travel
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My kind of rhyme: flights to Peru for $392
LAX-Lima in October on Kayak - search flex dates for best options
#peru
#cheap flights
Street art tour in Copenhagen by bike showcases local art by internationally renowned street artists
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why things are the way they are
…and why I am the way I am. Best friends/old college roommates tend to have that effect on you. Jenna travels the world for Airbnb. Between the two of us, I think it is apparent that you can have it all.
Indeed I do wake up some days not quite sure of where I am. The first time I met one of the Airbnb founders, he asked me how lucky I considered myself on a scale of 1-10.
I blurted out “10 plus!” without hesitating. I would be at a 10 because I have clothes on my back and enough food to eat. I’ve been incredibly lucky to have traveled to many places in far-flung corners of the globe and am acutely aware of how fortunate we are with our First World problems - we who complain about iPhone battery life and wonky wifi connections.
I feel lucky to work for a company that inspires me and is changing the way people travel on a global scale. In the year since I answered that question, I’ve been to Honduras, Germany, Greece, the Netherlands, France, UK, Spain, Italy, Denmark, and New Zealand.
Two days ago I escaped a downpour in Copenhagen for the sweltering summer heat of Barcelona. Now that it’s a rainy Sunday in Barcelona, I just might chase the sun again and hop a train to Montserrat for the afternoon.
It’s quite the life, this whole doing-what-you-love thing. That lucky scale? I’m off the chart.
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Young and restless. Taking on the world one country at a time
