Wanderlust: What Inspires Women to Travel?

“What book or film has inspired your solo travel or group travel?”  

I posted that question on four sites for women travelers, from millennial travelers to senior travelers, from solo travelers to group travelers (Girls Love Travel, Female

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Talking Turkey: Another Best/Worst Trip

It was 2:00 a.m. and we hadn’t slept for almost 35 hours. We had been waiting for a car to pick us up from the airport in Istanbul, and I couldn’t reach our hotel on my phone. Then I realized …

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Part 2: When Dreams Become Reality Then Become Hell: Traveling to Tibet in 1987

The journey continues

In the winter of 1987 I entered Tibet by walking from Kodari in Nepal to Zhangmu in Tibet—a journey of about three miles. As I ran across the steep hill from the town to the road, what …

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I’m Not a Stalker…But My New Friends are All 40 Years Younger than Me

Not that I’m counting, but the last time I checked the “largest online community of female nomads” site, I had 542 likes and 153 comments. And all of the comments were at least civil, a strange and heady sensation.

How …

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The Summer from Hell: Worst Trip I Ever Took, part 2

My brain hurts from trying to unearth memories of my truncated career as a tour guide for preteens and teenagers in Europe nearly 45 years ago. I believe that the experience (both the disasters and my inability to evade them) …

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