I’m sorry for the click-bait-y title guys, but I couldn’t think of anything else more descriptive of what I experienced yesterday. Have you ever stared into someone’s eyes for more than a millisecond? I’d done it before for a minute or two at various Burning Man workshops. I’d tried it on myself in the mirror […]
25 Reasons Why Women Should Never Travel Solo
You’ve heard it before, right? Women should never travel alone. I mean, think of all of the terrible things that could happen when a girl goes out into the world all by her lonesome. Things happen to women who go out alone. They realize things, they meet people who change their perceptions, they come home […]
Is Long Term Traveling Inherently Selfish?
In a recent email, BMTM reader Isabella asked me, Do you think long term travel/backpacking is inherently selfish? One obvious reason is for people who are leaving friends and family and missing out on quality time with them. But I think a bigger reason is because backpackers are basically hedonists – they go out to […]
The Big Question Girls Who Travel are so Tired of Answering
The question comes up again in casual conversation. It can strike anywhere, while riding along in the car in Germany, at high tea in Zimbabwe, or in the middle of an adventure around Angkor Wat in Cambodia. At this point, I’m not even annoyed anymore because I understand that people are just curious and a […]
A Letter to My 21-Year-Old Self on My 31st Birthday
Dear 21-year-old Kristin, happy birthday! This is you from the future, sailing in to drop a few bombs of knowledge on that you will wish you knew back then. This is going to blow your mind, but in the last 10 years you didn’t become a rockstar, not that that was ever in your aspirations, […]