This is for all the single ladies who travel. For all the women out there who decided that, whatever the circumstances may have been, that they wouldn’t let anything hold them back from experiencing all of the riches that this world has to offer. I’m talking to you, fellow solo female traveler. At times you […]
How to Gently Tell Someone You’d Rather Travel Alone
So you’ve planned out an amazing trip and have every intention of doing it solo. You excitedly talk about it with someone else and the unexpected happens: they invite themselves along. Now you might love this person, or at least want to keep peace with them, but you know that you want to do this […]
Can Introverts be Extroverted Travelers?
I have a confession to make. It might sound like an oxymoron, and maybe it is, but I am a total homebody who also loves traveling the world, seeing new things, and meeting new people. Confused? Yeah, me too. See in my 20s, I was incredibly extroverted. I would get bored as hell sitting at […]
Why Traveling Alone as a Woman is Safer than Staying Home
I remember the untimely death of two female travelers in Vietnam making headlines when I was getting ready to leave for the trip that I’d been planning, saving, and frankly stressing over for nearly a year. A couple of girls had mysteriously died, most likely from poisoned drinks. Several close friends sent me this article […]
Why I Decided to Leave Berlin
I rode in the back of the taxi, weaving through the empty city streets, the lights reflected in the wet pavement and the walls of the Berliner Dom. I had forgotten that every fall the Festival of Lights comes to town, projecting patterns on the major buildings throughout Berlin’s Mitte neighborhood, synced to music. I’d […]