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If you’re getting ready to travel the world and profess to be a feminist, be prepared for questions like “Who’s your father?” and “What’s your father’s name?” “Culture shock” is a misnomer. [...]

  Latin music blasts overhead, fighting to be heard over the dozens of scattered fans whirring in symphony, much like a jumbo jet’s roar before takeoff. Saturday afternoon has summoned [...]

After nearly five months in Mexico, I’m amazed at how much I’m learning about myself and my career. I’m excited to apply all these things – from personal lessons to my [...]

A reader wrote a comment worth addressing. They said: “Sorry if this is rude but it seems to me you don’t like anywhere you ARE but dream of how it’s going to be great in the NEXT place. It’s [...]

Somehow, weeks have passed since I fled Guanajuato for San Miguel de Allende, and I have neglected to share all that with you. Bad nomad. Yes, spiralling into the reality that I’m depressed has [...]

Here in Guanajuato, clouds are so low that the city is in a fog. Fittingly, too, because I’m so disoriented by news coming out of Oaxaca. Mainstream media is saying 6 are dead, including a [...]

Wild shrieking and giggles carry from the pool down below this roof I’m writing on. Maniacal children have hollered and screamed for hours now, but work has been the order of my day, and somehow [...]

Travel is a learning curve. It’s different for all of us. We learn what we can do, what’s adaptable, what’s intolerable, and what we crave. It takes time for these things to become evident [...]

I’m down to my final 50 hours in Vancouver and then I leave on yet another jetplane, taking me to Oaxaca, Mexico, which I believe to my core will be a huge turning point in my travels, my life, [...]