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Recommended Women Travel Companies
Perhaps you are recently single, or your partner doesn’t want to travel, but you do, well women travel all the time, so don’t stay at home because it all seems too complicated or you don’t have a travel buddy. If you don’t feel like organizing a trip yourself, then join a group. You may meet […]
The Best Travel Apps for 2016
As avid travelers, we want to share the best travel apps we have found useful before and during our journeys worldwide. Trip Planning Apps Safety First. A customized, location-sensitive personal security app. GeoSure is powered by a highly sophisticated analytical engine that combines information from hundreds of renowned and trusted sources like the CDC, WHO, […]
Women Travel Safety: Attacks in India and Mexico: Travelers Do’s and Don’ts
From Acapulco to New Delhi — in tourist bars, hotel rooms, taxis and deserted streets, women are less safe than ever. Traveling to see the world is exciting and entirely safe for most of us, most of the time. However, for us, for women, we move around the world with a different mind set, one […]
In Nepal, One Women Helps End Child Slavery
In Nepal, child slavery wasn’t on the national radar until one women came upon the scene. Olga and I became friends over a decade ago. At that time she told me “some women fall in love with men–I fall in love with countries.” She visited Nepal in 1984 to go trekking in the Himalayas where she […]
Travel With Teens. Tips and best vacations.
Why Travel With Teens? Attitude with a capital A, sullen silence and mono-syllabic conversations are only half the fun of traveling with teens. Add to this the pungent aroma of smelly socks (travel with teenage boys), or being locked out of the bathroom for hours (travel with teenage girls) and you might wonder if family […]
Five tips for traveling where you don’t speak the language
Living in a rural village in Nepal taught me a thing or two about surviving in a country where you don’t speak the language. With a little help from your smartphone and a healthy dose of humility, it is easy to enjoy yourself regardless of your lingual abilities. Translator Apps are an excellent alternative to flipping through a […]
Polar Bears and Beluga Whales
“Polar bears move as if the country has belonged to them always.” John Muir, on a visit to the Arctic in 1899 Less than an hour after we landed in Churchill, Manitoba, Canada at the remote lodge on Hudson Bay, we saw our first polar bear. In fact, it was a cuddly-looking mother and cub […]
Gutsy? Adventurous? Reckless? We Biked Across America for Osteoporosis Charity: the Toughest Thing I’ve Ever Done!
WHY? For reasons that made perfect sense to us, but not to my husband or most of my friends, we chose to bike from the Pacific to the Atlantic coast, camping, preparing our own meals and charting our own course unassisted by a professional support van. Our roadblocks were logistical challenges and unanswered questions. How […]
In Bali new friends lead to a magical memory
In Bali, I was reminded that there are all kinds of people who transform a ho-hum trip into a magical memory. One morning as the roosters announced a new day, my husband, two daughters and I met Mahdey, our hiking guide, in the hotel lobby in Ubud, Bali. He grinned widely, and enticed 9-year-old Annalyse and […]
Women Travel Statistics and Women Travel Trends
Women travel statistics indicate that women consumers now drive the world travel economy. Women are earning more, spending more and influencing all levels of the travel industry. Women’s purchasing power in the travel segment has never been higher. Women’s Purchasing Power and Spending Power Women account for 85% of all consumer purchases including everything from autos […]
