One of my favorite parts of traveling and living abroad is that I meet kindred spirits. People who are also interested in growth through adventure and who have taken risks to travel and try out new things for the sake…
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Brazilian and Single? Today Is Your Day!
Today is the official day to celebration singledom in Brazil. Feliz Dia dos Solteiros! I found out when a Brazilian Facebook friend posted a photo of himself cooking alone and called it his “Feliz Dia dos Solteiros” photo! I spent…
Five Reasons to Travel Alone
During 2010, as I traveled alone through France, Brazil, Colombia, and Argentina, I regularly encountered people who find it courageous to travel alone. I remember a hairstylist in Bogota. As she blow-dryed my hair, she told me she couldn’t picture…
Tagged with: men traveling alone, solo travel, south america, travel alone, traveling alone, women traveling alone
Posted in migrate, Travel
Posted in migrate, Travel
Watch and Listen as I Get Serenaded by a Taxi-Driving Tango Singer
Lindo Como Vos: A professional tango singer (and taxi driver) Victor Diaz serenades me on the ride home from a milonga, Zona Tango in Balvanera, extremely local, sort of grungy, one of my favorites. I predict this will be the…
Be Grateful for Being Single
The American holiday Thanksgiving is approaching, and with it, millions of families (and urban tribes like mine, pictured above) will gather to gobble down turkey and sweet potatoes with marshmallows baked on top. Many of them will also go around…
Tagged with: gratitude, happiness, single life, thanksgiving
Posted in migrate, Personal Growth, Single Life, Travel
Posted in migrate, Personal Growth, Single Life, Travel
Rio’s Fast-Thinking Malandros
Words from a foreign language reveal how people from another culture think, and that can be endlessly fun. This week one word kept popping up in conversation in Rio. It’s a particularly Carioca word called “Malandro.” The first time that…
But Is It Fun? The Search for the Perfect Salsa Class or Mate
After two weeks in Cali, my Belgian friend Griet and I, wandering our somewhat bohemian neighborhood San Antonio, found a gym an astonishing two blocks away. The gym offered a dance workout—rumba aerobics—Saturday mornings at 10. What a find! Although…
Tagged with: cali, colombia, fun, joy, perfectionism, salsa, salsa caleno, salsa class, Travel
Posted in Personal Growth, Travel
Posted in Personal Growth, Travel
Colombia’s Bizarre Bathrooms
Colombia is an amazing country, full of mountains as stunning as the Swiss Alps and people as sweet and welcoming as the people I met in the Northeast of Brazil. It’s also full of strange and hilarious bathrooms. Well, two…
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A quirkyalone is a person who prefers being single to dating for the sake of dating.
It’s a mindset. Here's the manifesto