For the first time in recent memory, I went on a trip without my laptop. (This post is being composed on my husband’s computer, which we brought along with us to enable trip-planning. Someday we might begin a trip with the entire itinerary arranged ahead of time; this is not that day.) For a writer, […]
Conscious Living
On Domestic Travel
In February 2014, my now-fiancé and I quit our corporate jobs to travel full-time. While we had been dreaming of and talking about our escape for months, it wasn’t until the week before we actually gave notice that we decided where we would do our traveling. We wanted to travel for at least six months […]
Be Kind: How to Handle Touts and Other Characters
I am in Cairo, Egypt right now, and, let me tell you, the traffic here is something else. It’s no wonder: Cairo has one of the highest population densities in the world, with more than fifty thousand people per square mile. Buses, private cars, taxis, and motorcycles all jockey space on the roads, and any […]