In December 2009 I visited Medellín, Colombia. I took this photo in the far northeast of the city, the barrio of Santo Domingo Savio, a hillside shantytown that used...
Posted by | March 22, 2013
In February 2010 I visited Angola, my husband's homeland. On my first morning in Luanda, we headed out to Tunga N’go market, in the run-down but real-life neighborhood of...
Posted by | March 18, 2013
In February 2009, I spent three weeks in Bolivia on a guidebook assignment. In the unassuming Altiplano town of Oruro, I made a pitstop at Casa Arte Taller Cardozo...
Posted by | March 17, 2013
In November 2012, I spent three weeks island-hopping around Cape Verde, a far-out archipelago in the eastern Atlantic, on guidebook assignment. I visited eight of the nine inhabited islands,...
Posted by | March 14, 2013
The other day I was looking for a photograph among my online archives and realized what a great diversity of travel memories I have. If global experience could count...
Posted by | January 13, 2013
Yesterday marked a strange little anniversary: five years of my blog. Exactly five years ago, EverTheNomad.com was born. It has since gone through a few highs and lows. The highs...
Posted by | January 1, 2013
So, 2013, you’re looking good to me. My gut says you’ll be grand. As for you, 2012, you’ve been... well: intense. People have been asking me where I’m from and...
Posted by | November 27, 2012
The more I travel, the more travel strikes me as a huge privilege. For the vast majority of people on this planet, travel is but a far-out fantasy. Instead of...
Posted by | November 15, 2012
There are moments in my travel writer’s life when I feel like I’ve accidentally entered a parallel dimension. When it seems like I’m living somebody else’s life, or watching a...
Posted by | September 16, 2012
I love it when old passions resurface. So it recently happened with one of mine: Tango. I discovered tango in 2002, when I visited Buenos Aires for the first time....
