You know what it is like. You are all hyped up to go somewhere, the bags are packed, the bookings are done. And yet there is something bothering. While a wildlife tour in Uganda is a once in a lifetime opportunity, the country and its culture are still completely new to you and you are…
I really am not trying to be crude and uncouth. I do have alarms going off (almost every time I curse, saying,” But what will they think? What does that say about you?) Clearly, the alarms were malfunctioning when I wrote my infamous “Fuck, Fuck, Fuck” post, but usually, their siren is quite piercing. So,…
You typically hear two things about travel: how perfectly lovely and romantically fairy-tale it was OR how horrifically end-of-the-world worst-case scenario it was. This is a bit of both. Travel is unreal, widens your horizons, tickles your senses, and pushes you out of your comfort zone. Travel is also you being vulnerable to whoever, whatever,…
