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Georgia: War is on their Mind

“Russia bad!” the cab driver stares at me in the rearview while nodding, awaiting my agreement. I barely have time to close the door and settle into the backseat before the elderly Georgian man utters these few words in his…

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My Nomadic Experiment Part III:

Arctic Circle to Austin, Texas – More North America – The Trans-Labrador Highway “Traveling–it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibu Battuta FROM THE ARCTIC Circle I continued north on the Dalton Highway until…

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Cultural Travel: Embrace the Good, the Bad, and Especially the Weird

Traveling abroad means learning how to use a bidet for the first time, warm hospitality from complete strangers, wonderful and unusual smells of exotic dishes, idyllic views thought to only exist on the cover of National Geographic, and music that…

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My Nomadic Experiment II: The Lower Forty-Eight – The Inland Passage – The Arctic Circle

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes” – Marcel Proust WITH A FESTIVAL of thoughts swirling in my head, I rode away from Virginia Beach, a place I had called home…

Banh Mi and Bia Hoi

In my vain search for the perfect Banh Mi, I found something even better… Bia Hoi culture. Vietnam is home to some of the best food in Asia, which is saying a lot considering its neighboring countries. Before I landed…

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My Nomadic Experiment: Reinvention, Transformation, Stepping Off the Edge

“Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that mountain.” – Jack Kerouac FOR MANY OF us, it takes too much of life to figure out how we…

10 Days as a Woman in Morocco

As a woman traveler, I experience things differently than my male counterparts. I don’t typically travel to the places that are going to be on CNN’s “Top 10 vacation destinations for your spring break” or where this year’s favorite Insta…

Covid Is Over!

I never intended on Bali being a destination. Traveling throughout the pandemic wore on me. Restriction after restriction, QR codes along with unnecessary and excessive paperwork, lots of waiting, long lines, PCRs, vaccines, boosters, health forms, quarantines, masks, fees, COVID…

Sacromonte Hills

We walk past the Catedral de Granada entrance towards the Moroccan section of the city to hail a cab. It’s busy. The chatter of tour guides in several languages echo off the stone buildings holding their respective groups in a…

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Bourdain’s Footsteps

Anthony Bourdain learned about free tapas culture during his visit to Granada, Spain in Parts Unknown. Along with each drink order small plates of food are served that tend to increase in quality, and many times they are samples of…