Winter in New South Wales, Australia for me resembles spring or autumn – often even summer. Accustomed to temperatures on the United States’ Eastern Seaboard so brutal they kill, it’s refreshing to walk around outside in Sydney and its environs during the deepest, darkest wintertime months without fighting to stay alive in the ice. Where [...]

Living our routine at home is so rote. Even when we strike out to get away for a short while from the norm while we’re not traveling, we frequently wind up gravitating toward it anyway, returning inevitably to our favorite spots, time and again with a force of habit stronger than gravity. We travel to [...]

This weekly series on Solo Female Traveler focuses on the power of place. Where I Want to Go This Week in Travel is all about the colorful, the compelling, the enchanting, the quirky. Each week I look for travel stories and articles in personal travel blogs that highlight a destination – one I already love [...]

Why do some people pack up their lives and move abroad? Behind each journey from resident to expat is a story, always unique and often fascinating. One standout of an expat is Carrie Kellenberger, who left her life in Canada to move to China and teach English for a year. Her year of living abroad [...]

This weekly series on Solo Female Traveler focuses on the power of place. Where I Want to Go This Week in Travel is all about the colorful, the compelling, the enchanting, the quirky. Each week I look for travel stories and articles in personal travel blogs that highlight a destination I personally love or have [...]

When first we travel to a well-known destination, we arrive fully loaded with pre-existing notions of its sights, its people, its character. Before I stepped foot in Sydney, Australia I expected the city to be shiny and modern, stuffed with museums and restaurants and buzzing with people-filled sidewalks, much like many major cities back home [...]

The first time I traveled to Sydney, Australia, I strolled through the Royal Botanic Gardens expecting nothing but flora. Instead, I got some pretty shocking fauna. Looking up into a towering tree, I saw dozens of large, round black things the size of bowling balls hanging down. A native fruit, perhaps? No. A nearby sign [...]

Welcome to Where I Want to Go This Week in Travel. This new weekly series on Solo Female Traveler will focus on place. From every travel blog on my radar, I’ll peruse the posts of the week and pull out the destination-based pieces that capture my attention. Here I will showcase what I think are [...]