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Inspirational Travel Music
Music to Inspire Wanderlust Add these to a playlist to amp up your motivation to see the world. Music can make you happy, science says ...
Read More Food is Cultural – Always Eat and Travel
Everywhere you travel, be sure to eat the local food. Food is one of the most exciting and immersive ways to understand a particular place's ...
Read More How To Travel with Chronic Illness
Chronic illness has a significant stigma attached to it. A lot of chronic health issues go undiagnosed for years. Even when they're given an official ...
Read More Tourists Aren’t The Problem, Jerks Are
I’m going to say something controversial: It’s time to embrace tourists. Stop expecting those who come to see where you live to know how to ...
Read More 3 Qualities International Volunteers Must Have
In an earlier blog post I wrote about graffiti in the parks of Buenos Aires and shared a photo of art at Plaza Los Inmigrantes, ...
Read More How to Survive Being Stuck in London Heathrow Airport Overnight
After a summer in India I was on my way home and so ready to be over with the day long travel. I got stuck ...
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guides
My first love is travel. I've lived on four continents and in five countries and counting. I started my writing career as a travel writer. Take advantage of my mishaps and successes with these articles that will guide you around places like London, Buenos Aires, and the Vermont countryside.
Argentine Resort – Posada Itaca
The sun soaks through the curtains, slowly flooding the room with soft morning light. You are gently roused from a truly restful sleep that was ...
Read More Best London One Day Tour Guide
Heathrow Airport reported that 30 percent of their passengers in 2013 were business travelers, and with an average of 191,200 passengers arriving and departing daily, ...
Read More Most Delicious Breakfasts Around the World
Delicious breakfasts from nine countries around the world. If you’ve traveled far from home, you might be able to relate to the unique exhaustion that ...
Read More Buenos Aires: Bus, Taxis, or Subway?
Tourists and newcomers often wonder, “Should I take taxis everywhere in Buenos Aires?” If I had a dollar for every time I heard that, well, ...
Read More Okemo Valley Vermont Vacation Guide
Here in Argentina the seasons are changing and Spring is just around the corner. This will be the second year in a row that I ...
Read More Gaucho Dancing and Flag Day in Argentina
Argentina has one of the world’s happiest flags. Two wide sky blue stripes flank a white stripe in the middle of the flag. An ornate ...
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Come along with me as I traverse the globe.
Exploring Colonia Uruguay
Colonia, Uruguay Colonia del Sacramento in Uruguay is one of my favorite places. It moves at a pace more familiar to me than the rushed ...
Read More Buenos Aires: City Without a Filter
Buenos Aires I look to my left, down the tracks. The television hanging from the ceiling blares the latest news in Spanish. I can’t make ...
Read More Pacific Girl: Feeling My Pacific Northwest Roots
Age, late 20s Pacific Northwest Roots In the weeks leading up to my journey to the Pacific Northwest, I was experiencing higher than normal levels ...
Read More Argentina Road Trip Part II: Camping in Tilcara, Humahuaca, and Dreadlocks
March 2014 Buenos Aires to Tilcara This is Part II of my experience on an epic Argentine Road Trip. To read Part I click here. ...
Read More Argentina Road Trip to Andes Mountains
This past week I was gone in the Andean Northwest in Argentina. Along with my boyfriend and two of our amigos, I experienced an intense ...
Read More Anxiety Relief at Posada Itaca, Buenos Aires
January 2014, Argentine summer Posada Itaca I feel an odd half-death in the city, the only life to interact with is other people. The wind ...
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