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Revisiting the solo female travel experience
Sarai Sierra In late 2011, I wrote a post about the solo female travel experience, discussing some of the safety tips and lessons learned in several years of roaming the globe by myself. In it, I...
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Tet: The Craziness of Lunar New Year in Vietnam
In the weeks leading up to Vietnam’s lunar new year, Tet, Ho Chi Minh City underwent a gradual transformation. At first I only noticed it as a feeling, an additional layer of frenzy that was not...
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After 5 years of travel, what’s next?
Soup My father and I were on the phone a few days after I arrived in Vietnam, chatting about what I liked here and how it differed from elsewhere. “Jodi, I’m just trying to understand what you do every...
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Northern India: The Good, the Great and The Ugly
I noticed the clouds first, as I always do. “You see?” I said to my mum, pointing upward as we exited the airport. “Don’t the clouds look crazy after those weeks away? They’re so close to the ground...
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A Very Canadian Christmas
My dad, a man of considerable gravitas who believes in systems and traditions, has long predicted the coming year based on the shape and style of our family’s Christmas tree. If the tree is straight...
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FAQs after 6 years of travel
Well, everyone. We’re still here. Six years after I said, “hey why don’t I quit my job as a lawyer and travel for a year and write long, rambling posts about bus rides from hell so my parents can be...
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2015 Travel Plans
Hello 2015! It’s been a crazy last year, from a bustling beginning in Saigon to a blue-drenched month on Syros, Greece, to last summer in London, Berlin, New York, and San Francisco. Several weeks of...
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Personal musings after 7 years of Legal Nomads
Today marks the 7th anniversary of the day I quit my job as a corporate lawyer and left New York to travel. During the intervening years, I have thought back to the conversation that occurred when I...
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Autumn Plans
After I fell down the stairs and fractured a rib, I spent the summer in Ottawa with my brother (eating a lot of soup) and then the month of September with my parents, split between the Eastern...
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A Love Story in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta
“You know,” Maxime said, treading carefully, “I didn’t recognize you when you first showed up here.” “Really?” I asked, confused. “Why would that be? People seem to think I look like my headshot on my...
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