[dropcap]Y[/dropcap]ou know, it’s interesting how this blog has changed over the nearly two years I’ve had it. When I first started, I was so determined to keep it uber professional and more like a travel site rather than a blog. I didn’t quite realize that there are plenty of professional sites who already do this and have…
[dropcap]A[/dropcap]hh, Valentine’s Day. It’s actually one of my favorite holidays, believe it or not. While you’d think 24 years of being completely single would turn me completely off on romantic love and this “Hallmark holiday,” it has not. In fact, each year I actively fight against becoming bitter, buying a bunch of chocolate, and crying…
[dropcap]Y[/dropcap]ou could say Verushka has always been infatuated with seeing the world. Raised in Durban, South Africa, her parents took her everywhere locally, passing on their own wanderlust to her. She even recalls that her first school holiday was a trip to Swaziland. Of course, it makes sense that she’d plan for a life related…
Funny enough, I had a gift guide scheduled to go out today. It’ll still go out, but I think it’s a little inappropriate to be shoveling out gift suggestions for female travelers when there’s so much somberness in the air right now. Sometimes writing comes easily to me, and sometimes it doesn’t. Usually I let…
I originally started writing this over a year and a half ago when I said goodbye to the first big group of people leaving Namwon. I was still pretty new, and I was imagining what it would like to say goodbye to a town I called home for two or more years. A few weeks…
It happened in a little French town. Katie Francis had just arrived to Vichy for her semester abroad when she knew this was only the beginning of her life long passion for travel. She had just managed to lug two huge suitcases and a heavy backpack all the way from the US to Paris and…