Travel Dreams
Dreams A girl can dream. I have, ever since my mother found me at age four digging a deep hole in our backyard and asked … Read more
Travel For Adventurous Women
Travel narratives
Dreams A girl can dream. I have, ever since my mother found me at age four digging a deep hole in our backyard and asked … Read more
Isn’t it amazing how we humans always want what we don’t have and not what we do? It’s the reason for the invention of hair straighteners, plastic surgery and tanning salons. It surely plays a big part in the reason why we travel. We find our own little world unbearably dull and ordinary at times and so go off in search of some more exotic place.
Having lived and taught English in South Korea for the last nine months, it’s difficult to put my experience into words. When I try to … Read more
The everyday delights of visiting a friend in a small village in Germany One of my favorite things about visiting friends abroad is getting to … Read more
When long-distance hiking gets personal, but not in the way you thought it would be The Camino de Santiago, or the Way of Saint James, … Read more
At the gates of Pompeii, my views on tour guides were changed forever… I’m not sure where, but somewhere along the course of my life … Read more
I began to convince myself over €3 bottles of Riesling that certain silly ideas I daydreamed were worth pursuing. One of these midguided ideas was the “jump shot”.
The next day I walked to the village and everyone genuflected and addressed me as Rankaditti, which roughly translated as “Princess.”
We touch down on the runway at Chongqing’s airport and I glimpse at a heavy haze that weighs the city down. We disembark, gather our … Read more