Making Friends While Traveling Solo

Making Friends While Traveling Solo

Often when traveling alone, people feel like they are seeing such amazing things in their travels but have nobody to share it with. One way to avoid this negative feeling is to make friends while traveling alone. It can be hard for travelers to meet locals on the road...
Have You Been There?

Have You Been There?

“Have you been there?” she asked, and that started a discussion about exactly what it means to have “been somewhere.” When I flew home from China last summer, I had an eight hour layover in Korea. I didn’t leave the airport. When people ask me what countries I have...
The Importance of Traveling

The Importance of Traveling

I travel as much as I can. Ironically, I live in Miami, a place that many, many people travel to. But even so, for a variety of reasons, I find that travel of all sorts is important to me. Traveling doesn’t have to mean an extravagant vacation to some far off distant...