Dear girls of the world: Be active in the pursuit of your dreams
Dear girls of the world, I was not always a traveler. In fact, for years and years before I finally made the leap, I was exceedingly passive in the pursuit of my dreams. Though I had always wanted to travel, as I shifted from childhood to adult-life, those dreams
Dear girls of the world: Find your own travel personality
Dear girls of the world, A year and a half ago, I made my first long term travel plans. I started obsessively planning, saving money, and selling off all of my possessions. I also moved out of my own apartment and back in with family to save
Can Travel Blogging Be Labeled As A Career?
Last night, one of the Germans I met at my hostel asked, "how the hell can you travel two years in South America without running out of cash?" "I'm a travel writer," I responded followed by the repeated sentences I tell everyone on what I do in
The hard times of my first six months in South America
"How did you it? How was it when you started?" TJ, a friend from the Philippines asked. I smiled and tried to remember the day I arrived South America. "Mighty scarce, sir. Mighty scarce. Something that can pass to be a telenovela piece." This is not a
Dear Mom, Thanks For Allowing Me To Travel The World
Dear Mom, Today, a reader from the Philippines sent me a very emotional e-mail. She said her mother won't support her dreams of traveling the world; that her mother thinks traveling is a waste of time and money; that there is no future for her when she
