The grouch in me wants to start this post with the standby gothic horror story introduction, “It was a dark and stormy night.” But that wouldn’t be entirely truthful. It…
I Love Fall in New England.
I love fall in New England. It’s been five years since I’ve been here through an entire autumn, and I’ve missed it all: the gradual blazing of foliage, walking across…
On baggage, weightiness, and traveling light.
I’ve had a lot of trouble writing this post. I had trouble deciding what to write about, and finally settled on writing about the idea of “traveling light:” what the…
Review: No Place Like Home
Review on the Go: No Place Like Home: A Memoir in 39 Apartments follows Berman’s struggles to maintain a roof over her head and a positive balance in her checking account as a as a twenty-something woman in New York City. Though not a travel book, this memoir about one woman’s search for home…
Cloud Gazing
I’ve always been a cloud gazer. When I was younger, I spent my lazy late summer afternoons on my back in the grass, looking upwards. Sometimes with my sister, sometimes…
Road Trips: Making Maps of Memory.
There’s a lot to hate about road trips: hours and hours seated in the same position, the possibility of flat tires and overheated engines, the threat of being squished by…
Review: Paris, Moi and the Gang
Review On the Go: Paris, Moi and The Gang: A Memoir… of Sorts centers around a year author Frances Gendlin spent living in Paris while writing a travel guide about…
Be Patient. Please?
Last weekend I took the train home from Boston to Rhode Island. I arrived at the station from my umpteenth job interview and I hadn’t eaten since an early breakfast…
Review: The Best Women’s Travel Writing 2010
Long before I’d set foot in another country, I’d visited dozens of foreign and fantastical worlds through the pages of my favorite books. To me, reading and traveling are natural…
Welcome!
Hey there and welcome to Go Girl Magazine’s new reviews section!! We’ll be kicking it off this week with several brand new reviews of recently released travel books. Stayed tuned…
A Sunrise Tour Around the World.
I have been back from France for a little over two months now, and these past few weeks–perhaps because of all the travel literature I’ve been reading, which you’ll soon…
In Honor of a Go Girl.
When I was growing up in the Adirondacks Mountains of upstate New York, my years revolved around two events: Christmas, and Grandma’s Summer Camp, an unofficial camping trip led by…
Visiting (not) Thoreau’s Walden.
Visiting Walden Pond, where the famous American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau wrote his treatise Walden, or Life in the Woods—especially on a hot, sunny Saturday morning in early summer—is about…
Football Fever!
All around the world, people are full of football fever! It’s the first weekend of the month-long sports fans’ heaven known as the FIFA World Cup. Every four years FIFA,…
Some Thoughts on Going Home
The night before I travel long distances, I tend to feel anxious and even slightly ill. I’m filled with a vague, unsettling nausea and a sense of impending disorientation. I’m…