Planning our ten-day trip to Puerto Rico this winter, we knew we’d be trying to cram a lot of activity into a short jaunt: the history of Old San Juan, the bioluminescent bay, lots of lechon, the rainforest hikes of…
10 Travel Memoirs by Novelists of Color and Their Beautiful First Sentences
One of our favorite things to do while traveling is to read books about the places we’re going, where we’ve been, and of course, where we’re going to go. Blog posts are very quickly taking up the space that guidebooks…
The Importance of Diverse Voices in Travel Writing
On my first solo backpacking trip through Asia in the days before digital cameras, iphones, Facebook, or twitter, every traveler I met carried around a writing journal and at least one book. Wherever I went, I would buy up journals in case…
Travel Notes from Our Flight to Puerto Rico: We Have Arrived!
It’s evening. Kavya’s packing list has been made: swimming costume, salsa dancing clothes, water bottles, chocolate, and you can’t go to Puerto Rico without packing party shoes. No idea what the hell #2 is. The Punjabi she wrote says Dadi and…
The White Travel Blogger Darlings and the Organizers Who Love Them
At the end of 2014, the Holy Grail of travel blogging events took place in December, the White House’s first ever Travel Blogger Summit, where 100 “influential travel bloggers” were invited to take part, some flying in all the way…
Ten Awesome Narrative Travel Bloggers of Color To Read in 2015
On our way home from our six month honeymoon in India back in 2007, we paid $1000 in excess baggage fees for very few clothes, and anvil weighted books: hard to find travel essays, fiction, Hindi pulp short novels only…
