Is security (or lack of) one of the reasons you are hesitant to go it alone? I get it, it is tough to be in a crisis and you turn to your buddy to scream, “Oh No! What are WE going to do?!” and there’s no WE, just air…maybe an angry border guard who doesn’t…
At the end of a grueling shift my heavy feet make their way out of work. Feeling a bit like a rat on a wheel, I look forward to the brief respite of sleep. My brain suddenly pops and floods with endorphins when I realize after months and months of waiting.. This time next month…
Maybe it is because I am going back to Africa in October but I seem to be thinking a lot about my previous trips there. As I was cleaning (read: shovelling out) my bedroom I found this journal entry I wrote while having a cold beer after my first encounter with the Mountain Gorillas. This…
I got an email concerning The Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival, the premier women’s gathering in the world… well at least in North America. It is the feminist version of Burning Man, the over-the-top testosterone orgy in the desert of California. I have never been but for most of my adult life it has been there,…
How do you choose where to go on a trip? Do magazine articles with their glossy photos grab your imagination. Can you suddenly see yourself on that beach, in that bikini, with that guy/girl? How about word of mouth? Well that’s how I decided in 2012 to go to Costa Rica… the words and feelings…
Travelling Crone 