I knew a really cool girl in Guatemala. She was pretty, fun, smart and interesting. One day someone told me that she’s 33.
Phew, I thought. Someone can be a pretty, fun, smart and interesting traveler in her thirties. This came as an incredible relief, because like most women past 25, I can feel my thirties [...]
I’ve been looking for someone like you for awhile. Something special. I had my tulmultuous relationship with Quetzaltenango, but it just didn’t work out in the end. I’ve been with Mexico City, but sometimes it’s just too much. I dallied a bit with Queretaro and Gualajara, but we just didn’t click.
Morelia, we clicked.
At [...]
I recently read a great article on one of my favourite travel magazines, Brave New Traveler. In her article “In Defense of the Introverted Traveler”, the author Christine Garvin admits to needing some serious alone time but at the same time being slightly envious of the benefits extroversion brings.
This article struck a chord with [...]
“The sad part of living overseas is that people come and go all the time,” I said.
“There’s a solution to that,” my friend replied. “Only make friends with locals, not foreigners.”
That’s easier said than done.
Any person living abroad presumably wants to form and strengthen meaningful friendships with local people in their adopted country. [...]
Canada, at least in winter, does not agree with me.
(Considering I had two colds, two flues and even a kidney infection that sent me to the hospital, I guess you could also argue that Guatemala doesn’t agree with me… but let’s just overlook that right now.)
Edmonton wasn’t even “that cold” while I was [...]
Day of the Dead, or Dia de los Muertos, is usually known as a Mexican holiday. Yes, its celebration in Mexico is supposed to be particularly raucous, but the holiday is also observed here in Guatemala.
Day of the Dead, celebrated here in Xela on the 1st and 2nd of November, is the day that [...]
Yesterday, I was climbing Volcan Pacaya for the second time. I asked the guide about the lava, which hikers can see flowing from a few feet away. Is the lava ever really dangerous, I asked?
No, the guide said. In fact, the people living in the area prefer when there is a steady supply of lava. [...]
By my standards (certainly not everyone’s) I spent a ridiculous amount of money in Belize. A basic place to sleep, simple meals (many cooked in the hotel) and maybe one beer set me back about 30-35 dollars a day. Part of the problem is that everything (even stuff in supermarkets) has to be shipped to [...]
When I imagine my future, I usually imagine it as a single vagabond type, living and working in different places, collecting many interesting friends but being a very “lone wolf” kinda gal. I want to live in every continent, I want to spend years working in refugee camps, I want to get jobs for NGOs [...]
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Posted 10 August 2009
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Warning:
Travel Snobbery ahead. (You know, how you get some travelers together and one will say “I’ve been here, it was incredible,” and another will reply “but I’ve been here, and it is more incredible!”) I try to avoid this as much as possible in my blog, but today I’m going to jump headfirst into a [...]
