Uprooted or Rooted Up? My First Solo Trip to the Home of My Ancestors Is this home? I laid my hand on the cold clay and traced the outlines of Gods and Goddesses carved onto the wall of a Hindu Temple that dated back to...
Not a Visitor, But Not a Local: How My Temporary Life Abroad Became My Own Microcosm of Reality The gas was out of commission when I first arrived at my Airbnb in Cόrdoba, Argentina, but a week (and many cold showers) later it was running at...
My Solo, South American Adventure Taught Me I Hate Being Rootless…Here’s How I Saved It It has taken all of my concentration not to cry for the past hour so I immediately break down when a well-meaning Australian woman, who is on my...
The Zen of Going With the Flow When I Travel How one Type-A traveler dialed her stress way back when she allowed fate to take charge If someone were to have told me to "go with the flow" four...
Do I Even Want to Go Off the Beaten Path? When I first stepped off of the ferry that took me from Athens to Tinos -- a smaller, cheaper alternative to Mykonos -- I didn't realize that I had...
