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The Question Every Solo Traveler Dreads “Are you dating anyone?” my well-meaning relatives always seem to ask, even though I’m sure they already know the answer. Often I want to say, “Yes! I’m dating Edinburgh right now. Or yes, I’m dating Wilmington right now.” Or, “Well I’m dating around at the moment–last week I saw […]
Circumnavigating the Globe. In a Car. In the 1960s. That’s how Albert Podell began his life-long journey to every country on Earth. He and fellow travel writer Harold Stephens found big-name sponsors to fund the trip that took them through nearly 30 countries in the span of about two years. Afterwards, they wrote a book […]
Ordinarily, we interview female travelers, expats, and travel-industry careerists, but today we are making an exception by interviewing Razu Poudel, founder and executive director of Seto Himal Excursion Pvt. Ltd, a trekking and travel agency based in Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal. As you may know, Nepal was recently struck by a magnitude 7.9 earthquake […]
Back in Wilmington…with nothing all the things to do And what’s the best way to get (re)settled in a place? Say YES to everything. So when I received a Facebook invite to Jess James’s Spring Fashion Preview, I got in touch to see how I could get involved. Cut to WEDNESDAY NIGHT, APRIL 22ND. Theme: […]
Today’s interview is with author and activist Alexandra Magalhães Zeiner, a native Brazilian living in Austria. The last interview in the series was Estrella Sansait of Estrella Explores. Other interviews include Rachel from Arts in Munich, Allane Milliane of Packing my Suitcase, Clare Laming of Monarch Butterfly Voyager, tattoo artist and world-traveler Amber Harris, Adrian […]
Museum of the Rockies: Bozeman, MT When I was a kid, my family and I took “yearly family vacation” ski trips out west. (Yep. A bunch of southerners on skis…I blame my parents’ Yankee friends). Somehow, though, we never went to the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman. This past winter, I decided to rectify […]
Visiting Boston inspired me. I met characters everywhere I went, and the cacophony of sounds — police sirens, intermittent construction, the hiss of steam from a kitchen vent behind a restaurant — instigated poems. But by my third day there, I’d come to a realization…
Our latest interview in the series is Estrella Sansait of Estrella Explores. Our past interviews include Rachel from Arts in Munich, Allane Milliane of Packing my Suitcase, Clare Laming of Monarch Butterfly Voyager, tattoo artist and world-traveler Amber Harris, Adrian Ann of Adrian’s Travel Tales, and Jenn Turnbull-Houde of Two Weeks in Costa Rica. In […]
There is no doubt about it: travel is dangerous. And I’m not just talking about going into war zones or taking that unlicensed ferry across a dark and stormy sea. Travel is dangerous to your perspectives, your opinions, your outlook on life, hometown and friends and family. There is something about traveling (especially long-term) to […]
Netgalley I came across John Marshall’s memoir via Netgalley, the site that lets you leverage your social media clout to receive free advanced review copies (ARCs) of certain books from certain publishers (digital format). The deal is, of course, that you have to review the book in a timely manner. If you haven’t gotten in […]