I can’t say I hate traveling anymore, but I don’t love it. When my boss called me into her office one fateful afternoon, she said I needed to go with them to help host our conference in Cote d’Ivoire. I…
I don’t consider myself a world traveler, but I was recently made aware that while most of my family and friends have never gone beyond our country’s borders even once, I’ve left it 5 times. When I don’t travel for…
It’s 4:30 in the morning and rain is pouring down. It took me longer than I’d like to admit to figure out it was raining. I got up, pushed a series of red and green buttons on the wall to…
My first observation: people in Nairobi walk everywhere. All the time. And the women even walk miles in high heels! But because locals in Nairobi walk so slowly they don’t need to use “caution wet floor” signs. Only fast-walking Europeans…
The scene in the picture above greeted me as I finally stepped off the plane. After 36 hours of traveling (32 of them in the air) my kidneys were bursting since I’m terrified to use the bathroom on an airplane. …
Do I have to give up driving now? At 1 year old my dad placed me on his lap and introduced me to motorized vehicles. It was a simple tractor. It went forward when you pulled a lever, and backward…
I don’t hate the guy who asked me to marry him and then broke up with me three weeks later. I don’t hate the woman who commented on my style, “At least you won’t have to worry about guys noticing…
India has snow. Did you know that? I didn’t. Before I went there, whenever I thought of India (which was seldom at most), I pictured the little water girl from The Jungle Book. That’s it. That’s all I knew and…
I don’t know what I expected to find when I traveled to India, but I never expected him. He had dark brown eyes and dark brown skin, and spoke in a quiet tone that made you have to lean in…
