Using my teeth, I would carefully tear off the top of my first dumpling and watch the steam rise.

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Halfway through the year I took a week off and flew to Turkey on my first press trip to see if I would actually like travelling full-time and traipsing around a new destination every day.

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"When I landed my first big one, some chemical reaction went off inside of me and I knew this would be my thing, " he says of kayak fishing.

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Some friends and I predicted that the gym would be packed for the first three weeks of January, and drop off from there.

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