[This Zion’s Tiny Oasis review was originally published in Travel World International Magazine] The global pandemic has left me altered. I once sped through excursions, booking trips within trips with an aim to tick as many items as possible off my bucket list. After two years marked by devastating personal losses, closures, and cancelations, I’m achingly aware of the fragility of life, and how salient time and shared memories are. I have discovered that the…

[This article was originally published in British Airways High Life Magazine] Before marriage and children, my life was dedicated to travel and work. I worked for the sole purpose of financing my wanderlust. However, my love of travel is rooted in my fervent desire to learn. With the fragments of new languages and cultures realized, I became a better and deeper version of myself. For me, travel is life squared (life²). I traveled a few…

I’ve always had a list of ‘things to do before I die’ in my head, but it wasn’t until a global pandemic hit that I took the time to write my travel bucket list out. Creating a Travel Bucket List might seem a bit macabre. But surprisingly, creating this list has had the opposite effect.   My initial list included goals for my health, and family, but surprise, surprise, the bulk of my life’s bucket list…

50 Inspiring Travel Quotes for Wanderlust I love to travel. Whether I’m traveling with my children, on a romantic getaway with my husband or traipsing across the globe solo, I love to explore and learn. Travel is one of my greatest passions. Authors, scholars, and great thinkers alike have waxed poetic for centuries about the wonders of travel. I’ve compiled a list of my favorite travel quotes. I hope you enjoy them, and they’re a…

When we decided to visit Australia, I wanted to incorporate a lesson in Aboriginal culture and history into our itinerary.  But it was imperative that the education we received came through the prism of the people themselves.  I found a few aboriginal exhibits in museums but I was interested in something a bit more independent…a FUBU (for us, by us) version, if you will. After a bit of research, I stumbled upon this review of the…

Hundreds of melanated travel enthusiasts converged on the city of Memphis, Tennessee to attend the Second Annual Audacity Fest. The weekend conference was chock-full of panels and workshops centered around my favorite topic…TRAVEL! But the Audacity Fest isn’t your run-of-the-mill travel conference, this event was created by and for travelers of color. The Audacity Fest is an annual travel conference organized by the Nomadness Travel Tribe, a group of more than 20,000 like-minded wanderlusters of…