I hesitated before booking a guided walking tour of Hitler’s Vienna. The name scared me a little. Would the tour in any way glorify the man? Would I be able to stomach 2.5 hours of learning about Adolf Hitler? In the end, I am glad I booked the tour. In no way did our 2.5…
This story isn’t about Vienna. As much as I loved the city, it was a backdrop for me. A place that my late partner loved, and the place where I chose to spend what would have been our one-year anniversary had cancer not ended our love story too soon. Even though this tale isn’t about…
This is a powerful WWII Europe tour of sites related to the Holocaust. It’s dark at times. It’s hard to absorb. But it’s necessary to learn the hard history. I call this my Never Forget series.
This walking tour of Prague is a free and self-guided tour. When I walked this route, it was just two months after my partner died of cancer, and I was walking in his footsteps. It turned out to be a beautiful and wishful walk through loss. When I first decided to travel to all of…
Does travel heal? It certainly did for me. But then travel was (and is) my dream. Whatever your dream may be, you are closer to it when you are grieving. When we are stripped down to our barest soul, we remember who we are at our very core. A grieving season sucks. It does. I’m…
My passion for hiking started when I decided to do an absolutely crazy thing for a girl who had never hiked. I decided to walk across Spain on the Camino de Santiago. Say, what?! When my late partner died of cancer, everything changed for me. I quit my job and started traveling the world. And…