“And Alex here is a professional travel blogger!” I cringe hearing the words come out of my travel companion’s mouth, and immediately starting looking for an escape route from the moving vehicle I’m currently riding in. The questions start firing from all directions. So you’re able to support yourself with that? Who pays for that? Yes…

Last week, I celebrated five years of travel with a big ‘ol look over my shoulder at the last twelve months of border hopping. Today, I’m switching gears and celebrating the other big anniversary that rolled around this month – half a decade of blogging under my belt. I guess time really does fly when you’re…

Where we’re at: I’m recapping my summer of 2019, including my blogaversary, which I celebrated in June.  I realize for some this is a difficult time to read about travel. I am writing often about our current global crisis — the impact it’s having on me personally, on the world of travel, and on the world…

Where we’re at: I’m recapping my summer of 2018, including my blogaversary, which I celebrated in June. In other news: after the first week sold out so quickly, we opened up a second set of dates for my Wander Women Red Sea Retreat. I’m pinching myself that I get to spend so much of September in Sinai’s…

Where we’re at: As I started to write my seventh travelversary and blogaversary posts, I realized that while I paid tribute to my sixth travelversary, I never celebrated the blogging milestone! (The contents of this post may somewhat explain why.) I didn’t want to have a gap in my annual recaps, so I’m making it up…

“Aim high, time flies.” I stared down at the message I’d just cracked out of a fortune cookie and wondered at the odds that this particular prophecy had found me. I was in a strip mall takeout joint in my hometown of Albany, New York, where I was quietly celebrating the fact that five years to…

Earlier this week, I celebrated my fourth travelversary by recapping my last twelve months of travels. Today, I’m toasting to another big milestone — four years of tapping away in Wanderland. Let’s take a peek at my last twelve months in blogging, shall we? My Year in Blogging This year, I wrote 191 posts, uploaded 4,233…