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A Peaceful Quiet in Quebec’s Eastern Townships
In building this life of travel, I’ve tried to keep my summers for North America, vaguely earmarking those months for work or speaking engagements in Canada and the United States. The reason is...
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Untangling the Lessons Learned at WDS 2012
Ah, the World Domination Summit. Such an awkward name for what remains an incredibly un-awkward event. In kicking off this year’s conference, Chris Guillebeau joked about the fallout from choosing to...
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Japanese-Style Lobster Cooking Class + Some Exciting News
Many of you have noted that I’ve been posting less frequently of late. I had the pleasure of meeting a few readers in Chicago (for karaoke no less!) and in New York, and several mentioned that Legal...
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How to Add Some Excitement to Your Travel Day
Remember back in 2009 when I warned about the dangers of apathy in travel? It was then that I realized no matter how savvy you think you are as a traveler, casual complacency will almost certainly...
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Serendipity: The Redux
This is Drew Meyers. Strango smoothies at Mrs. Pa’s, in Chiang Mai I met him in Chiang Mai, along with the usual suspects of smoothie-imbibing. We’re actually drinking strango smoothies (strawberry...
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Summer Chaos and Fall Plans
I’ve yet again failed to update Legal Nomads in prior weeks. The chaos of the summer is morphing into a busy fall, and before I leave the Canada for the next (ridiculous) month of travel I wanted to...
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Vivid Memories in Chefchaouen, Morocco
I only noticed the small crowd of children when I paused to breathe in deeply. I was so distracted by my own thoughts and my desperate attempts to get them down on paper before they dissolved...
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Passports with Purpose 2012: Help Build Clean Water Wells in Haiti
Passports with Purpose 2012 kicks off today and after the incredible fundraiser last year to raise $80,000 for libraries in Zambia (a goal we met!), we’re turning our eyes, ears and keyboards to a new...
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My first (delicious) impressions of Vietnam
I have only been in Vietnam for a few days but I am already wondering how it took me so long to get here in the first place. Granted, I’ve just arrived and I am in Saigon**; the country’s geography is...
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The Overview Effect, Mindfulness and Travel
A few days ago, my friend Victoria sent me a video from her boyfriend Steve. I met Victoria at a conference this spring, spending hours sitting and chatting about life and choices made, and why we did...
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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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