20 Life Lessons from a Year Traveling the World
October 6, 2015, and I was thousands of miles above Canada en route to Singapore. I had just pulled my eye mask down, put my earplugs in, and settled in to try to sleep, despite the adrenaline…
How to Rock a Travel Snapchat Account
I am an old person. I realized this back when I was teaching adults in New York City, and I had a hip young Turkish student whose phone was surgically attached to her hand. I gave up…
9 Questions to Ask Travelers Instead of “Where are you from?”
About a week into my solo trip through Europe last year, I was exhausted from meeting fellow travelers. I wasn’t tired of them – I love new people! – but rather the predictable routine of questions we’d…