Tag: travel tips
How to Fall in Love with Portland, Maine
How to Fall in Love with Portland, Maine On an early May morning, I stepped off a Greyhound bus and onto a foggy street. A heavy carpet of mist blanketed the city that I had just arrived in as I inhaled the frosty air. This was probably the last spot in America that was still…
How to Travel in the Trump Era
Street art in Mexico City While I was recently living in Mexico City, I was at party with a bunch of locals. I started talking to one of them in Spanish. They heard my accent and ask where I’m from. Ugh, I don’t want to get into it. “New York,” I reply , trying to…
10 Reasons to Visit Mexico City- Dame Traveler Guest Post!
I’m excited to share another guest post that I wrote for Dame Traveler. It is about my new love, a place that I want to spend every winter and dream about every summer: Mexico City. It is filled with travel tips and things to do in this ancient city. The reasons I love this city…
“Where’s Your Boyfriend?” and other Microagressions Solo-Female Travelers Face
New Year, new Dame Traveler post! This time I dissect all of the unintentionally rude microaggressions solo female travelers face. Here is a snippet and here is the link to the full article! Micro-aggressions are “brief and commonplace daily verbal, behavioral, or environmental indignities, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative prejudicial…