I am a planner. It’s something a lot of travelers I’ve met don’t like to do, but I absolutely love travel planning. I find it often saves me money and allows me to make more efficient use of my time. I also get really excited when I find a way to make a complicated trip idea work, and I […]
A few days ago I came across an article titled “Vacation for Less: Vacation in Iraq?” It was about how Iraq used to be a big travel destination, a sort of discussion of whether it will be again, and would you want to go there.
I have found my people. This past weekend I took a travel writing class through the Travel Channel Academy in Washington, DC and I absolutely loved it! Not only did the instructors, who run the site World Hum, supply us with buckets of information, advice and feedback, but the other people taking the class were amazing as well. […]
I’m not sure exactly when it happened, but a couple years ago I decided it was time to stop waiting around for a travel partner to go with me on the trips I had been dreaming of for years. Even though it scared me to think about going to a foreign country on my own, I […]