It can be huge, life-changing decision to uproot yourself from home and venture halfway across the world to start somewhere new, and for Katie Carlson that somewhere was Kigali, Rwanda. Originally from Vancouver, Katie first found the beauty of Rwanda on an exploratory trip for...
Aotearoa, the Maori name for New Zealand, is a vast expanse of natural beauty beckoning the beginner traveler to the most seasoned of outdoor adventurers. Driving around the “land of the long white cloud” in a camper van for a month allowed me to test...
Traveling is one thing - but traveling alone for an extended period of time is quite another. In many ways, undertaking long-term solo travel is the equivalent of beginning a period of self-transformation and change. You leave the person you "are" in your familiar surroundings...
As we brace ourselves to move abroad for the third time in a few years, I look back and I know that squeezing our lives into a suitcase and leaving our native Barcelona was the best decision that we could have possibly made. Because when...
When you think of Mexico City the thoughts of Pyramids, Tequila, Mezcal, Tacos, Art, Culture and fiesta come to your mind when traveling or planning to travel to the capital of Mexico.You will find diversity in Mexico City, it has become a great destination hub...
When I first saw Buena Vista Social Club, the iconic music documentary about the 1930s-era Havana club and revitalized as a band in the late ‘90s, I immediately called my mom from college and told her I wanted to major in ethnomusicology. The film went...