Elizabeth Wright-Veintimilla of our Quito chapter and Pamela Garcia of our Mexico City chapter have been hosting events under the hashtag #YoViajoSola (meaning “I travel on my own”) over the last few months. What’s the significance of these events?
Travel Around the World for Wanderful’s Birthday on May 22
Have you ever traveled the world in one day? Now you can – without leaving your home! Wanderful is celebrating its 6th birthday on May 22nd and to mark this…
Violence or Fetishization, and Sometimes Both: What It’s like to Travel as a Black Woman
“Your body is your first home. Breathing in, I arrive in my body. Breathing out, I am home.” –Thich Nhat Hahn And so I am home. I carry home everywhere…
House Sitting Is Travel’s Best Known but Least Used Secret
Have you ever tried house sitting? I use house sitting to help avoid smashing through my budget on accommodation and — let me tell you — if you like pets…
Traveling to Senegal as a US-Born Black Woman Changed My Life, and My Hair
I step off the plane and sun caresses my hair; I feel at home. It’s a month after my summer in Korea and I’ve just made my first trip to…
6 Ways Travel Will Save This Hurting World
Look, I know I’m preaching to the converted here when I say travel is a great thing. I’m talking to you, backpacking from Ushuaia to Alaska; to you, out volunteering…
How To Support Women-Owned Businesses When You Travel
“Disculpe, Tory. Por favor, sigue.” “Sorry, Tory. Please, continue.” Lilliana, the president of Posada Rural La Amistad, a women’s ecotourism association, places her phone face down on the wood table….
The Psychology of Making Friends While Traveling, and Why They Last
With shaking hands, I carefully poked a loose Jenga block free from the tower that was now at eye level with me. Out came a sigh of relief. I felt…
After Orlando: On Fear of Moving Through the World Brown or Queer
This post was co-authored by Ariana Hakim and Ariel Goldberg. I am 19, freshly back stateside after a semester abroad. I am visiting New York City — the home I’ll…
Travel Isn’t Perfect: Why You Always Need a Plan C
Rescue efforts by Global Rescue in Nepal. Photo courtesy of Global Rescue. In 2010 I visited Port-au-Prince just six weeks after its terrible earthquake. I was traveling on a volunteer trip,…
How to Be a Feminist and a Respectful Tourist
A delicate balance that leaves you wondering. Image by Flickr user Johnragai. A few months ago, I used some space in here to look at the tightrope feminists are often…
Run for Refugee and Immigrant Girls: Join Go Girl and GirlForward at the Chicago Women’s 5K!
Hey Chicago Go Girls! Remember Girl Forward, the beneficiary of our last Go Girl Live event doing great things for adolescent refugee girls in Chicago? Here’s a chance to support their educational programs and get…
Travel more, eat less junk food or say “sayonara” to cigarettes: what made it onto your New Years Resolution list this year?
So it’s January already, and once we’ve finished asking ourselves where the last 12 months have gone, we’re ready to make, stick to, and often break-our 2013 New Year’s Resolutions….
Woman to Watch: Alexx Poston, Founder and CEO of ClickTheCause.org
Alexx Poston is Founder and CEO of ClickTheCause.org, a crowdsourcing initiative that allows Internet users to help fund specific projects in their local community. Just a pearl in Alexx’s eye…
Woman to Watch: Judith Ochola Stands for Girls’ Education in Kenya
Judith is from Siaya County, Kenya. Her parents died from HIV/AIDS when she was young, and she and her siblings grew up as outcasts in a community that feared getting…