Before New Years, I knew I was going to take the coming year off to travel, but the plan at the time was to live in Barcelona, Spain (simply because I heard it was fabulous). Over New Years, however, I met a large group of traveling women who raved about how fabulous all these different… [Read More]
Trip Planning and Packing
How the RTW Ticket was Born, or: How You, too, Can Finagle an STA Deal!
Being commitment-terrified, I planned initially to do this Round the World stint through last-minute-purchased one-way legs along the way. Stumbling, sunburned, at 11pm to a travel agency in Cambodia to purchase a trip to Iran the next day? Perfect. Thus, on the recommendation of my sweet brother, I opened the homepage for STA Travel (a… [Read More]
Intro: WHY Around the World?
Testing, testing, tap-tap-tap… Thus begins my first full blown Mama-Kahuna BLOG! The reason: After 6 years teaching high school English in Boston Public Schools (more on this wonderful time later), I have saved enough dough for a year of ROUND THE WORLD, baby! Why the heck am I doing something my mother said she’d “no… [Read More]
The Missions of This Blog
Who is this site for? This is a travel blog for people of all ages who are curious what it’s like to travel around the world, through Asia, Africa, Europe, the Americas, and one’s own home (in my case, Boston!). This site has stories of things that I’ve seen and experienced during travel (some of… [Read More]
