I'm a flight attendant and writer. I write travel stories. I write funny posts about flight attendant pet peeves and (hopefully) useful travel tips. So stepping into the arena to talk about racial justice may seem out of the blue and
I rarely gripe about my job because it’s kind of the best thing ever, but often people ask about my worst stories, my pet peeves, the worst thing someone could do on a plane. The simple answer is it’s different
My friend Michaella is a huge traveler, but somehow in all the years we've been friends, we had never taken a trip together. So we determined 2018 was the year, and President's Day weekend was the perfect excuse for a
We all carry this assumption that we know the place we are from. But do we really? How often do you go touristing in your own town? How often, on a day off, have you thought “I could go there
We’re weeks into social distancing, with each day bringing more stringent restrictions to back an ever-growing infection rate of the Coronavirus. Countries have closed their borders. Curfews have been enacted with fines for noncompliance, and in Hungary, the president has
We were sitting at a wobbly aluminum table, topped with a beer tower for two, on the sidewalk outside a restaurant on Bangkok’s famed Khao San Road when she approached. Dressed in too many layers for the summer heat in
6 ways to beat the social distancing blues that don't involve getting drunk or binge-watching Netflix.
Not only is the coronavirus devastating lives, families and industry, but it caused a black hole of an existential come-to-Jesus moment for me last week after some unexpected work news. Read on, but be warned: There is some serious vulnerability
I can’t believe I even have to go into further explanation here. Sea turtles. Babies. Bam. Every travel blog I consulted before my visit to Puerto Escondido suggested the turtle release as a must-do event. And although they all raved
Oaxaca is the largest state in Mexico and includes not only the artisan-hub capital city of the same name, but also miles and miles of sand and surf of chill and beautiful beach towns along the southern pacific coast. Mazunte