Cassie Stockamp

So it was a wild experience feeling the transfer of fear and anxiousness from those around me in response to what felt like an unraveling world.The current o...

It was 91 degrees in Amed, Bali and I was sitting on the steps of an Indomaret mulling over the year while eating a roll of coffee flavored cookies. Yeh, the...

So this whole little goof began in Sri Lanka last March after making friends with two young delightful women from Berlin. When we gathered each morning befor...

One rather gloomy winter day, I found myself slowly ambling around the halls of the Chicago Merchandise Mart peering into the showrooms that displayed some o...

So I was awakened one morning by the 4:30am call of the rooster and rolled over to find a dead snake lying next to my bed. That was the second time the cats ...

I met Made at a dive shop and followed him on my scooter over windy, hilly roads that hugged the beautiful Amed shore line. Made was an onsite manager at one...

Gede (pronounced with two short “Es”; accent on the second) was the 20 year old that picked me up from the airport after a LONG travel day to Bali: Cape Town...

What a fitting way to conclude my time in Cape Town - an insightful Uber ride to the airport. This time the driver wasn’t a immigrant or refugee, but a South...

The synchronicities of South Arica continue to amaze me. The other day I pulled up a Ted Talk that I had queued in my email over a year ago. I opened it to l...

I met with the surgeon again this week, and he said, “I thought the next time I would see you would be in surgery....” My body put me in a full stop while I w...

In Chobe National Park in Botswana, the safari guide pointed to the star on the farthest right point of the kite and drew a straight line to the farthest lef...

I was surrounded by a gaggle of little bodies pressing in to see small pictures of America on my phone. I was visiting Natemwa School, a village school in th...

I’ve been staying in hostels with travelers of all ages who are coming and going with backpacks and all sorts of sundries, and I’d wondered when it would hap...

My morning cup of joe accompanied me on my walk on the playa of Santa Marianata, Ecuador. I watched a squadron of pelicans glide in perfect formation mere in...

Of course she got pooped on! Toooo funny!! Wow, these men are really nice. Wait. Why do they have so many napkins? It looks dark over there and I don’t see b...

It was a dimly lit room in what I think was once upon a time, an old church. The familiar yoga chants filled the space and the teacher moved with her eyes cl...

We did it!! My 20 year old and I paraglided with Condors in the mountains of Argentina! The day was magical.... even though it was precluded by a bus strike w...

Iguazu... So I thought a 20 hour bus ride to see the majestic falls might be a bit miserable, but a double decker bus complete with reclining seats made the ...

My daughter graduated from Indiana University in May, so I came home to Indianapolis to be with her and celebrate her accomplishments!! My baby graduated and...

So Hawaii... what beauty! The friend that I came to visit is living on the property of Abbie who is a talented artist that relocated here from Connecticut. M...