Travel off the beaten track and experience

Your heart is beating faster than usual.  Butterflies are fluttering around your stomach.  You can barely contain your excitement. No, you are not in love (well, maybe, but that is your thing). You have decided to embark on yet another great adventure.  The time to depart is coming close and you can only think about the places you are going to discover, the tasty morsels available on local markets and the quirky characters you may bump into. Hold on your thoughts. Let’s analyze this for a moment. Do you want to have a wonderful time? Yes.  Are things going to run smoothly like a fine tuned watch?  Not necessarily. Even with the realization that things may derail at a given moment, I still believe any trip can be meaningful, rich and fun.  It all depends on our attitude. Here are some thoughts on how to approach travel with the correct attitude. Do not take things personally During my travels, I have had many negative experiences.  I have been taken advantage of, scammed and mis...

You may be wondering why it’s such a big deal to have a millennials-only river cruise in Paris? I can definitely answer that for you, since I know first hand that the typical demographic of river cruises is around fifty and over! Not that there’s anything wrong with that, it’s just that there’s a very different preference in the way Baby Boomers travel versus Millennials, and until now, most river cruises only catered to the former. This is why there has been such lack of Millennials on river cruises in Paris (I would know, since I was the only one aboard one last year), and why it’s been so hard to promote reasons why they should get onboard. But now, thanks to a bright idea by Uniworld , the first ever Millennials-only river cruise (of hopefully many) exists in Paris for travelers aged 21-45! They’re calling the fresh-to-death, chic AF, newly renovated ship “The B” , and just like Beyonce herself, she looks like a Queen. The activities both on and off board are super fun and exci...

Reading Time: 8 minutes An exploration of race, nationality, labels and identity. If I write my captions in Spanish or mention that I’m Latina, will non-Latinos think I’m no longer relatable? Will they think I’m un-American? Two years later and …SURPRISE… Yo hablo español. Was I holding back on revealing my Latina identity on purpose? Did I not notice that I wasn’t discussing my race? Why discuss my identity now? Recently, I started to write my Instagram and Facebook captions in Spanish (in addition to writing them in English). Why? Quite frankly, I have family and friends that don’t speak English fluently, and I just wanted them to know what was going on with my life. I wanted to include them. But it wasn’t like I hadn’t thought about this before. Originally, I had hesitated to sharing my work in Spanish. I think about everything I do, especially when it’s going to to be all over the Internet, “influence...