And where to start with your visa options… Hello fellow culture curious, travel people: I mainly post on my website blog, my Travel Oracles podcast and my Substack Newsletter these days, but given my work and living in different places, I often get asked about what options there are for…

My original full post can be found on my blog, but felt I should share part of it here as well in case it is helpful to more women in need of these resources. I have spent the last few days in a furious rage about the horrific decision from…

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With a new year and new travel adventures beckoning, what better way to get inspired to explore new places and cultures than to dive into some exciting female travel memoirs? When taking a leap into a new experience, reading words by fearless kindred spirits have the ability to spark waves…

I can’t fathom what it must be like to be a child or student these days, confronted by an onslaught of information from constant digital and media stimulation, but I can say they are more informed than ever and leveraging facts to fight the good fight, from gun legislation to…

“I think that ageism is a cultural illness; It’s not a personal illness” ~ Frances McDormand Our culture continues to be starved for real connection and generational relationships that would impart the cultural & experiential wisdom we so desperately need. Why does the West still fight this fact and perpetuate…

With the return of HBO’s ‘Deadwood’ movie, it had me thinking about why I connected with the series in the first place. The real Deadwood was a lawless town in South Dakota — the discovery of gold in the southern Black Hills in 1874 set off one of the great…

Simply sharing out of admiration today for the late, great Maya Angelou and her beautiful ability to fully observe people and places. “It is necessary, especially for Americans, to see other lands and experience other cultures. The American, living in this vast country and able to traverse three thousand miles…