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Tilted Map

Travel, sustainability & life between two cultures

A travel blog about food, sustainability & life between two cultures.

Turquoise waters and a blue sky above a chain of islands in Thailand. ©KettiWilhelm2019

Welcome to a different kind of travel blog!

Tilted Map is a different perspective on something familiar. A travel & food blog that’s just as much about culture & sustainability. See my About Page for more!

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Glass jars and paper packets of plastic-free toothpaste tablets (Bite, Unpaste, Mouthful, Crush & Brush, and byHumankind brands) sitting on a stool with trees in the background. ©KettiWilhelm2021

Bite vs Everyone [All The Plastic-Free Toothpaste Tablets, Reviewed]

Ketti
February 12, 2021

Toothpaste tablets are a fairly new, very travel-friendly and eco-friendly alternative to your standard, non-recyclable tubes of toothpaste. I’ve already mentioned my favorite brand of plastic-free toothpaste…

Continue Reading Bite vs Everyone [All The Plastic-Free Toothpaste Tablets, Reviewed]

Two bunches of broccoli, held up by this recipe’s author, with trees and mountains in the background – ready to make authentic Italian Pasta with Broccoli. ©KettiWilhelm2021

Pasta With Broccoli: A Recipe Stolen from My Italian In-Laws

Ketti
January 16, 2021

This is one of my favorite Italian family recipes – Pasta with Broccoli. It’s healthy, easy, meat-free, and can be vegan or vegetarian if you want it to…

Continue Reading Pasta With Broccoli: A Recipe Stolen from My Italian In-Laws

How Hard Is It to Go to Hawaii Right Now? (And Should You?)

Ketti
December 4, 2020

This is a timeline of my experience traveling to Hawaii from the mainland US in December, 2020, plus current COVID-19 restrictions for Hawaii, the pre-travel test I took…

Continue Reading How Hard Is It to Go to Hawaii Right Now? (And Should You?)

Plastic-free toiletry brands reviewed, lined up on a wooden table: Bite toothpaste bits and bamboo toothbrush, byHumankind refillable deodorant, floss and plastic-free hand sanitizer, LastObject (LastSwab, LastRound and LastTissue), HiBAR zero-waste shampoo, the Ultimate Body Bar, and The Ordinary serums in glass packaging. ©KettiWilhelm2020

Plastic-Free Toiletries: My Travel-Friendly, Less-Waste Routine

Ketti
November 17, 2020

This is my thoroughly tested, less-waste travel routine: Plastic-free toiletries that are mostly gender-neutral and feel like a treat to use – not a sustainability obligation. I actually…

Continue Reading Plastic-Free Toiletries: My Travel-Friendly, Less-Waste Routine

A Norwegian cruise ship in port in Juneau, Alaska. Cruise ships have many sustainability problems, including causing air pollution and water pollution. ©KettiWilhelm2020

What Makes Cruising THAT Bad for the Environment?

Ketti
October 28, 2020

An overview – in plain English – of the biggest sustainability problems with cruise ships, and some solutions for how to fix them. (From interviews with experts!) Among…

Continue Reading What Makes Cruising THAT Bad for the Environment?

LastObject's two versions of their reusable Q-Tip (basic, in pink, and beauty, in purple) shown with EarthSider's knock-off/ counterfeit version of the product (in gray) for this review. ©KettiWilhelm2020

LastSwab vs EarthSider Review [How to Avoid Zero-Waste Greenwashing]

Ketti
October 14, 2020

What’s your biggest pet peeve? If you know me, you probably know that I can’t stand anything fake. Things, people or companies that claim to be something they’re…

Continue Reading LastSwab vs EarthSider Review [How to Avoid Zero-Waste Greenwashing]

A blue and gold sunset over Caribbean Sea – filled with sailboats – in Guadeloupe. Taken at the end of long work day an international travel guide. ©KettiWilhelm2020

How Do You Actually Move Abroad? (11 Ideas & Personal Experience)

Ketti
October 1, 2020

A few weeks ago, I got a text from an American friend asking me one simple question: How can I move abroad? Understandable. Especially this year. So I…

Continue Reading How Do You Actually Move Abroad? (11 Ideas & Personal Experience)

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Part 15: Aaaand I’m back! I disappeared from the Part 15: Aaaand I’m back! I disappeared from these videos for a bit, while @theaviaoexperience was building cabinets and while I was feeling totally overwhelmed and really over this project. Typical 2020 vibes, amiright?  But I got my second wind!  When we bought this van and started tearing it apart last fall, we discovered that every piece of ugly, maroon wall covering hid another mass of unlabeled wires. 🤦‍♀️  Everyone who looked inside the van (mechanics included) remarked that it was, like… A LOT of wires.  This video really only shows a small part of the tedious process of figuring out which ones went to what, and which ones we could cut. ✂  (This was previously a wheelchair van with a lift, remote controlled doors, a 90s TV and VCR, and lots of other accommodations we removed, which explained a lot.)
Part 14: Building the rest of the kitchen, which c Part 14: Building the rest of the kitchen, which could also be our future office and by virtue of it being about .5 square meters, a good reminder not to work toooo hard. Have a good week everyone! ✌️
Happy New Year! 🌙 The last time I really celeb Happy New Year! 🌙  The last time I really celebrated Chinese New Year was in 2015, when I was living in northern China. I spent the holiday with my dear friend @alice940314 's family, in a tiny hilltop town in Sichuan Province, and it was one of the most unique experiences of all my travels.  We spent a lot of time hanging out with her family on this patio, just chatting, looking out at the farm fields and going for slow walks between them, playing cards, and eating delicious foods (homemade by her mother and meant to bring luck in the new year). 🍚  We helped grandma plant her potatoes one afternoon, and walked slowly around town, where people gave me lots of funny looks (since my random appearance was the first documented incidence of a foreigner in town). We stopped in shops selling mountains of fireworks, and I snapped photos of the red paper left after they were set off.  It was probably the most blissfully low-key holiday I've ever been a part of, and just fascinatingly different from anything I'd done and any place I'd been. I can’t wait to go back again some year!  Do you celebrate Lunar New Year?  Or have you ever, anywhere in the world?
Part 13: And then he started building us a kitchen Part 13: And then he started building us a kitchen! ❤ @theaviaoexperience  It’s been strange to realize that he has the patience for this, when normally I’m the one who excels at tedious tasks (applying for visas & green cards, untangling things). But I have no interest in figuring out cabinet making (one of my dad’s many professional skills that I did not inherit. 🤷‍♀️)
Part 12: I'd pretty much given up at this point, b Part 12: I'd pretty much given up at this point, but he kept going. Out to the shop every day, fixing things I hadn't even contemplated being broken (and doing weird accents). I remain thoroughly impressed. ❤ @theaviaoexperience  Pandemic Love/Life Lesson: Find someone who gets burnt out in different ways than you. Any others to share?
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