Backpacking has a way of getting people talking about serious things in an ordinary way and talking about ordinary things in a serious way. Conversation on the trail wavered between questions like, “Did you really […]
Backpacking has a way of getting people talking about serious things in an ordinary way and talking about ordinary things in a serious way. Conversation on the trail wavered between questions like, “Did you really […]
A wall of thick heat waves over me as I step off the plane in Zanzibar. I’d never heard of this Tanzanian island in the Indian Ocean until a friend of mine from college said […]
There are many things for a woman to fear when she travels alone. Perhaps because it wasn’t my first time traveling alone or in Ireland, I wasn’t afraid. However, it was in this cold, dreary […]
Four Days Up the Coast of Croatia. The McDonald’s employee sees my littler sister and me sleeping on their red bench seat. She continues to sweep under our empty table, waking me up. It was […]
Ses Salines beach at the most southern tip of Ibiza is known by the rich, the beautiful and the famous. Walking along the shoreline it all appears pretentiously picturesque: yachts on the horizon, the inviting […]
Tomato fight in Spain! The world’s largest tomato throwing festival takes place in the small Spanish town of Buñol, 45 minutes outside of Valencia, every year. It’s called La Tomatina. And ever since I was […]
The morning I was to leave Beaufort for my seven-week venture abroad in Europe and Africa, my father held out his hand with three small, white and black-speckled pebbles, asking me to choose one. “Take […]