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February 7, 2021
Panama is a beautiful little country that connects Central America to South America. This small country of 4.2 million people is where you can see the sunrise and fall on both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans at the same time. Its famous canal, which we all learned about in fifth grade, is genuinely a modern […]
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; […]
January 2, 2019
Ok, so here it is. We are planning this all out and it hits me. What kind of shoes will I wear? I am a finicky person when it comes to shoes. I have high arches, I’m pretty sure one set of toes are longer than the other, I have big feet [que size 11 […]
December 25, 2018
I’m on an Antarctica kick and it’s because it was one of the best trips I have ever taken. It was not cheap but it was worth it. Plus, Antarctica is forever changing and as our climate warms it will change Antarctica in unimaginable ways. Rights now you can only get to Antarctica via a […]
December 8, 2018
It’s hard to begin to sum up what Antarctica means to me. It’s more of a feeling, too magical to write, but it’s in my heart. When I think of Antarctica, my heart flutters. Butterflies fly and I feel immensely blessed. Antarctica is one of the highlights of my life and for many reasons. But, perhaps […]
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. […]
November 15, 2018
Ushuaia is located at the tip of Argentina and is a famous port city for embarking on trips to Antarctica from Argentina or exploring Argentina’s Tierra del Fuego region full of glaciers, penguins, and wonder. Christian and I up here due to our trip to Antarctica. We arrived a few days early before the trip […]
November 1, 2018
Stop. Put down that map. Your planning is done. Seriously. You need to read this to understand why Benin is the perfect West African getaway. First, Benin is a very stable and beautiful country in Francophone Africa. With over 75 miles of coastline, abundant wildlife, beautiful sunsets, extreme hospitality, and infrastructure making it […]
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 […]
September 4, 2018
“I did not know what to expect for my two-day layover in Johannesburg on my way to Santiago. I had heard that Joburg was a city full of contradictions, violence, echoes of the apartheid and young black and brown South Africans on the move and ready for business.”
August 24, 2018
I woke up to the text from Brandon. He wrote “Where are you? I’m at your hotel.” It was 7:00 am, and I was a bit confused. I was flying out that day from Victoria Falls to Johannesburg in a few hours, and I was not in the mood to get up earlier than I […]
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