by Rochelle Hensley Day One Picture it: A not-bad-looking, young, adventurous black female tourist walks down a little cobblestone road somewhere in the middle of Florence. That woman was me. Map in hand, I eagerly made my way to the first site of the day. I hadn’t been walking fifteen minutes when a handsome, stylish…
by Thuc Nguyen In April of 1998, I walked past a travel agency in South London that advertised cheap plane tickets to Croatia. I had been in England for over half a year and needed to spend some time elsewhere, but dreaded going to well-known destinations such as Paris or Ibiza. Even Prague was filling…
by Kristin Pedroja Kristin is obsessed with exploring. Perhaps it was her upbringing in Wichita that got her dreaming of yonder from a tender age, but wanderlust had her in its clutches as soon as she saw the Alps for the first time at age eight. After receiving her English degree at the University of…