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January 24, 2021
Hello Binary, Trans and/or Non-Binary people, Let us talk about something often overlooked in the travel community and is rarely depicted on all those shiny Instagram posts. I’m talking about travel and mother nature: our periods. When preparing for our 8 month trip around the world, I worked out every detail all the way down […]
January 12, 2021
It’s been a while since I updated this blog but 2020 has brought on lots of life changes. Shortly after returning from our world travel Christian and I moved from NYC to Wisconsin for six months. What was a six-month adventure for my career turned into a permanent move and we traded in NYC’s landscapes […]
July 4, 2019
It seems almost unreal and selfish to write a column on the struggles of returning from long-term world travel after an extended break but the struggles are real, and they can consume you if you are not careful. What most people do not talk about is what happens after you return home. It generally follows […]
February 20, 2019
How can one begin to really capture one year of travel or summarize it? It’s really difficult to explain what we experienced and how it all felt. Sometimes, I wake up in the morning and I think to myself? Did this really happen? So in moments like these, I scroll through my all too many […]
January 12, 2019
I started off our adventure thinking about what to pack and confident that I was doing it right after reading tons of very very useful packing blogs and packings lists. One of my first blogs posts was about what I packed for our long-term travel. You can read about it here. But I’ll tell you; […]
December 1, 2018
One of the highlights of my life was our 10-day cruise with Quark Explorers to Antarctica. Antarctica is one of the most remote destinations you can travel to, and there are strict rules that surround tourism there. It’s also incredibly far. Let me paint a picture for you of what a first sighting is like. […]
October 18, 2018
Since childhood, I dreamed of going to Africa. To a black American child whose history can only be traced to a plantation and the lineage of the white plantation owner who took advantage of my grandmothers — Africa– was the closest thing I had to connect to my heritage. All of my white American friends […]
August 14, 2018
I was panicked. I had put off deciding what to do outside of going to South Africa and Namibia once Christian left for the United States. I had from October 30th to November 17th to make my way from Accra to Johannesburg and see all I could see. The pressure of endless opportunities and the […]
August 4, 2018
I am not sure how I convinced myself or Christian to agree to a 13-day tour through Ghana, Togo, and Benin to see Ghana’s Millet Festival and learn about voodoo, but somehow, we paid the deposit and added it to our plans… Truthfully, I had always wanted to go to West Africa but could not […]
July 2, 2018
It was unbelievable reading the headlines this morning in Reuters. I wanted it to be anything else but real. Yet, nestled between the headlines of Singaporeans making money off of the Trump/Kim meeting was the sad headline: Celebrity chef, TV host Bourdain dies of suicide at 61 He was the last person I would […]
December 30, 2017
I felt like I have lived multiple lifetimes due to the richness of life I have been experiencing while traveling for the last 5 months. I have seen so many things and met so many people. The experiences I’ve been having have shaped me 30x quicker than years of the 9 to 7 daily grind. […]
December 25, 2017
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from Panama. And a very Happy Birthday to my mother. Wow! It’s time for some reflections. Some how July 29th turned into December 25th. While my blog is a bit (a lot) behind in terms of our location compared to my last article I intend on catching up. My lofty […]
November 13, 2017
Before embarking on our journey together I read a lot about relationships and travel. Naturally, Christian and I worried about how travel would impact our relationship. “Researching” online answers to those questions can be daunting, especially when you are faced with a multitude of possibilities and titles like “Travel Is the Ultimate Relationship Test“, “10 […]
October 10, 2017
When I first got on the plane to go to Accra, Ghana in West Africa I promised myself a few things: I would not be like the other black Americans who come to West Africa, in a Dashiki, high-fiving everyone and saying “I’m home.” I will try not to feel weird about wanting to say […]
October 7, 2017
It’s coming full circle. 13 years later I end up back at the first destination that ignited my passion for travel. It is here that I married my young 16 year old heart to Picasso’s Guernica and vowed to return. It had embodied for me then and it embodies in my memory now – the […]
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