Whether you call it dark tourism/grief tourism (tourism directed to places that are identified with death and suffering) or thanatourism (personification of death, refers more specifically to peaceful death) – I need to know what the hell draws you to it? I’m going to call it suffering tourism because you are going out of your way to be…
Bet some of you REALLY sick of waiting on others to get their shit together so you can travel right? I know those ones still. So now you’re in this situation like, ‘can I go there alone? am I going to be safe? is my self-imposed curfew going to be when the street light turn…
“How does your man deal with you leaving so often?“ “My girl could never!“ “You know the shit girls do on their lil’ girl trips!“ Oh, men and their opinions on your traveling. Been there, had that. As someone who travels as much as I possibly can – some of these comments and questions come up…
I’m one of those people who LIVES on message boards and reads everything I possibly can about places I am about to travel to before I get there. Preparedness, I find, keeps me out of unnecessary situations when traveling. For my recent trip to Abu Dhabi, Dubai and the Maldives I read up on the…
I have been pondering over this for a long time now. It has come up in my conversations with fellow travelers and with randoms on Twitter. I also talked about it with my mom and then with some of my friends. I looked it up on Google….. nope, still no consensus on the topic. WTF…