Any decent New Orleans itinerary will include jazz and beignets, but this enchanting city boasts so much more than that! As long-time fans of New Orleans, it’s no wonder we…
A Wanderfest-Inspired New Orleans Travel Gift Guide for Women
Wanderfest is just around the corner! In case you missed it, in March 2022 we’ll be heading to New Orleans for the world’s first outdoor travel festival for women. Get…
Join Us at Wanderfest in New Orleans! The First Outdoor Travel Festival For Women
Wanderful is thrilled to announce our biggest event yet! Wanderfest will be the world’s first outdoor festival to celebrate, inspire, and connect women who travel. Get ready to join hundreds…
8 Reasons Beyond Mardi Gras You Need to Visit New Orleans
New Orleans. What do you think of when you hear that city’s name? Is it Mardi Gras? Does your mind immediately conjure images of Bourbon Street? Do you think of parade…
Plan a Trip to New Orleans: Tips from 28+ Travel Experts
Wanderful Women’s Travel Guides offer a comprehensive resource to start planning your travels. We aggregate helpful travel tips from Women Travel Creators who visit or live in the destination so…
How One Craigslist Encounter Encouraged Me to Travel Solo
Merriam-Webster defines serendipity as “The phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for.” I define it as a series of happy accidents; of things being in the right…
Camouflage (Solo) Travel: Female and Fat
Don’t worry who’s looking. Image from fusion.net. This Fourth of July, the Boyfriend and I headed to Lisle’s Eyes to the Skies hot air balloon festival for the perfect combination…
New Orleans, Sober
I know, I know. What kind of young woman am I to experience New Orleans entirely sober? Well, I’ll tell you. I am a woman who went to New Orleans…
Some Lagniappe from New Orleans
According to current travel guides and statistics, New Orleans is one of the top ten most visited cities in the United States. According to the “Rae on the Road” travel…
Tunes and Tombs: Solo Sammy Goes to New Orleans
“Let the good times roll,” indeed! As the play closed, I had one week of spring break left and ran off to New Orleans for four days. It was…
Travel Haunts
“Cemeteries are fascinating, they’re a living representation of the culture, the history, the passion of the civilization that deposits its dead there; they’re a spiritual link to the past.” -John…
Jazz Time
It’s spring break 2010 and I’m cruising around New Orleans in a big white van full of friends. “And I think that was our turn that we just passed…” I…