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Chasing Rainbows and Finding a Pot of Gold on the Isle of Skye
December 29, 2020December 29, 2020

There are songs and poems and endless legends about rainbows, and I love them all. In fact, I consider myself a bit of a rainbow connoisseur. I have seen my fair share of rainbows, but nothing prepared me for the day we saw thirteen rainbows in one day on the Isle of Skye in Scotland. THIRTEEN! My best friend, Kim and I were fairy hunting and researching my ancestry on the Isle of Skye. (This was 1995 before the internet,…

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Fairy Hunting on the Isle of Skye in Scotland
December 26, 2020February 12, 2021

Kim and I walked deep into the surrounding wild woods, looking closely underneath vibrant polka-dotted mushrooms. We even stepped into mushroom rings, one at a time, holding hands in case one of us disappeared into Fairy World…

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Moonlit Balls, Seashell Crowns, and a Quest in Tulum
December 20, 2020February 10, 2021

She is wearing a robe spun from shooting stars and I’m wearing a dress sewn from a sheet of rain.

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I’ve Been Robbed Many Times While Traveling!
December 17, 2020February 12, 2021

Of course I don’t enjoy being robbed, but as an adventuress, I have been robbed a few times, from waking up to some scalliwag trying to take my backpack out from under my head, to standing on a crowded bus and noticing some joker unzipping the zipper of my bag. Sometimes they succeeded, sometimes they didn’t.

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Traveling in Tulum: Laughing Myself to Sleep
December 15, 2020February 6, 2021

It was 1996, I was having a rough time working in Mexico City. I was belly dancing in Polanco and living above the Arabic nightclub. My best friend, Kim, came to rescue me, and we bought bus tickets and headed out to explore the country. Eventually we landed in the Yucatan, and our friend, Kayren joined us. We had all heard the stories about the dangers of traveling in Mexico for women. We were traveling on a local bus late…

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I Played a Backpacker in a British Airways Commercial Before I Became One
December 13, 2020February 12, 2021

I played a Backpacker in a Commercial Before I Became One

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Running of the Bulls and a Hemingway Fantasy
December 11, 2020February 8, 2021

“I had missed the Running of the Bulls because I was brushing my teeth in a matador’s hotel room.”

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The Queen’s Bath
December 8, 2020February 12, 2021

I have never felt more like a queen than swimming in a waterfall in a jungle surrounded by ancient stones with my twin soul, who put her arms around me when I was cold…

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Backpacking Adventures: Who Needs Chanel?
December 5, 2020December 5, 2020

Still to this day, thirty years later, I smell Chanel No. 5 and I am transported back to that little room in Spain, to the exquisite lightness of being a girl who loves starlight dancing in her hair.

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