Travel Reflections

It’s true. No matter how much love I have for the world, no matter all the kindness I have experienced, somehow volunteering never ends up on my agenda. This week, I wonder why.

Being back in the States, Jess wonders why and how much nationality matters, and whether in today’s age, where you are from plays an important role in revealing who you really are.

After a few weeks here in New York, Jess reflects on the difficulties of reconciling the knowledge gained on the road within the confines of everyday life, and whether or not she is entirely neurotic. You be the judge in this week’s What I Wonder column!

This week I wonder about music and whether it connects us all, or gives a false sense of direction. Plus, I reveal a little known secret about the Germans.

This week I get off my chest something that’s been bothering me for a while, and we need you to weigh in on this as well!

After months of traveling through some less than gay-friendly locations, we find that we wrestle with what has essentially become a half in, half out of the closet lifestyle. As gay travelers, are there times when we should go back inside the closet? And if we do go back in, how far is too far?

5 June marked our 400th day on the road – it has been over a year now since we started traveling and while time has flown by, those first few days of nomadic freedom also seem a lifetime away from where we are now (which is Lisbon, Portugal, by the way!)

This week, I wonder whether other travelers see the same silver lining in air travel that I do…or what is it that other people enjoy about this bizarre form of transportation.

We GlobetrotterGirls have been on the road for exactly two years today! Read on to find out how many borders we’ve crossed, buses, taxis, boats and tuk tuks we’ve taken, our top 5 places we visited this past year, and just how much did we spend in our second year of travel?

We celebrated our 800th day on the road yesterday! Today we’re sharing the tops and flops of the last 100 days, which we spent in India, Singapore, Malaysia, the U.S. and Mexico.