Female Adventure Travel: Is it Safe to Brave it Alone?  When you’re a female solo backpacker, you are going to hear the question, “Is it safe?” a lot. In fact, some

  Mindful Travel: Peace in a Noisy World We’re slowly learning to disconnect from our digital devices and reconnect with ourselves. In the digital age, it’s getting more and more difficult to

Backpacking: Is that even a thing anymore? Right after my college graduation in 1993, everyone talked about backpacking through Europe. It was a rite of passage started by the “hippies” in

Although I have traveled to Holland several times, I had never seen the fields of tulips until this past April.  On this visit to my ancestral home with my daughters

You can read hundreds of books, but nothing replaces seeing, breathing and feeling history. In Monument Valley, Arizona, the monuments or sandstone buttes stand in the landscape like teachers waiting for