Is travel to Egypt on your bucket list? If not, it should be. And I’ll tell you why – amazing experiences, incredible food, welcoming locals, and a history that dates back tens of thousands of years. In February 2022, I’m hosting the FIRST EVER Paper, Ink, & Passports Travel Founder’s Trip to Egypt and I…
Category: starting my own business
Is Working With a Travel Advisor Right for You?
At the opening ceremony for Virtuoso Travel Week in 2018, Simon Sinek spoke of the relationship between clients and their advisor. He said something that struck me as perfect, even as a new advisor. When asked “why should I work with you?”, he said, “you should say, ‘you shouldn’t.’” But – why? Why should you…
Travel Dreaming: New Adventures for 2021
The world still needs time to heal, but there is universal optimism. Among the travel community, we feel that safe and responsible international travel is on the horizon. That’s the key takeaway from the two-day “Ready, Set, Grow” virtual conference Largay Travel hosted back in January. It was a week of travel dreaming, with a…
September Updates
Can you believe we are already in October?!? The year has gone by so fast, but there’s still a few more months to go and I’ve got a lot going on. What’s happening in my world? I’ve been learning a lot – there’s always something new to learn! – and working on some pretty awesome…
reflections: where i see myself in ten years
Earlier this week, I was going back through my oldest posts. Many right now are back in draft form, since I really hope to reformat them at some point. However, this one is live and so I’m here to add to it and reflect on it. Back in 2010, the original publish date, I was…
2017, a year in review
WOW can you believe its the end of 2017? I can’t. My last two years have flown by – they say that time flies when you’re having fun and so I must have been having a BLAST! Because I’ve definitely let things slide a bit here on The Girl With the Map Tattoo, I wanted…
harsh realities of travel: travelling broke
Talking about needing money to travel isn’t an easy thing to do but it’s time to do just that. Mainly because I am literally travelling broke right now. A few weeks ago, while in Bali, I ran into a snag. A money snag. My hotel, where I’d been staying for two weeks, didn’t accept cards…
this is no holiday: working and travelling digital nomad
Lovely readers, family, friends, world… I am not on a holiday. It might look like it to you when you see what I put up on social media but you don’t see the other side of it. I am a working and travelling digital nomad, not a beach bum (although I do sometimes joke about…
starting my own business: money
If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you know that I have been thinking, planning, and otherwise procrastinating about starting my business. Well, that time has come and I’m itching to get out into the wild world of travel planning. My goal is to be open for clients by the end of January…
paper ink and passports: the business
when i quit my job earlier this summer, i knew it was for several reasons. i knew i wanted to start my own travel curating company, and i knew it was time to move on (and to new zealand.) the business though, has been taking up my thoughts lately, not the packing lists and new…