Before I start recapping the month, let me begin with a greeting: “Hey, Kate from the future! Hey, people who were curious! I knew you’d look up this post! How are you doing? By the way, just how long is this going to last?!” Because this is the recap for March 2020 — a month
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When I started this blog more than 10 years ago, I had one goal: to entertain as many people as possible with my travel stories. I got away from that goal in recent years, focusing on guides for travelers instead, realizing that it’s hard to earn a living when you tell stories like these. But
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This is not where I thought I’d be. If things had gone to plan, I would now be on a bus moving through the Peruvian countryside, smiling at the memory of my meals at Central and Maido, looking forward to sandboarding in Huacachina, seeing Machu Picchu, and exploring the Galapagos a few weeks after that.
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I tell travel stories for a living. I do this because I can’t NOT tell travel stories — every experience I have is shaped in the moment and waits in anticipation to shoot out of my fingertips. And I live to share those stories with an audience. As humans, we’re hard-wired to be influenced by
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I’m excited to introduce something I’ve wanted to do for quite a long time — private one-on-one calls between me and my readers! This new product is a way for us to have private one-on-one conversations tailored to whatever you want. I got into this business is because I wanted to help women achieve their
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One of the biggest challenges of my past decade of travel has been learning how to prevent UTIs while traveling. For about 15 years, I have suffered from several urinary tract infections per year, and it has been one of the most painful and irritating things to deal with while on the road. This has
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Sumidero Canyon is one of the best places I’ve visited in inland Mexico. This canyon is one of the most beautiful and stunning sights in the Chiapas region of Mexico. If you’re visiting Chiapas, in Mexico’s south, you’ll probably be visiting San Cristóbal de las Casas. This is an incredibly beautiful and charming city —
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Well, this month didn’t go the way I anticipated. On the travel and life side, it was fantastic — I spent the whole month based in Mérida and did trips all over the Yucatán Peninsula. At the beginning of the month, Coronavirus was in the news and my traffic took a slight hit. By the
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If you’re looking to experience the brightest, clearest, most shimmering body of water of your life, I have some advice: travel to Bacalar, Mexico. I spent two months living in the city of Mérida, Mexico. Mérida is a great place to live for so many reasons, but perhaps the #1 reason is because there are
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Is it safe for a woman to travel alone in Turkey? With the right preparation and research, absolutely. While I’ve done a lot of solo female travel in Turkey, I’m not an expert — that’s my friend Katie Nadworny, who has been living in Istanbul since 2013 and has traveled Turkey more extensively than anyone
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