INSPIRING BOOMER 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 …
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 …
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 …
“At 6,000 m (more than 19,500 ft.) above sea level, the Tibetan Plateau is both remote and hard to reach.”
—the BBC
So I had always dreamed of reaching the “the roof of the world,” Tibet. I finally made it …
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 …