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Last Updated on March 27, 2026

Welcome to GlobetrotterGirls.com

Whether your passion for travel is brand new or you are a seasoned travel pro, you’ve come to the right place!   

dani israel national trailHere you can find a selection of the most useful articles on Globetrottergirls.com and some posts to get to know me better:

Travel Tips: Find out which books inspired me to travel, which things I love about New York City, Costa Rica, Mexico and other places I have been.

Travel Photography: For some of my best photography work, check out the Travel Photography category and while you’re at it, why not have a look through my Polaroid of the Week series, where I post a photo which best represents my last week in travel.

dani with beer oktoberfestLGBT Travel: For a look at what it’s like as LGBT travelers on the road, check out the posts on what it was like to travel as a lesbian couple and had 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? We also covered the slightly awkward nature of checking in to hotels as a lesbian couple in this post: One bed or two

What I Wonder When I Wander – This was Jessica’s biweekly column pondering a wide-range of topics related to travel and life.

Favorite travel moments

Some of my favorite travel experiences in the last few years have revolved around animal encounters. In 2026, I got up, close and personal with grey whales in Baja California. In 2025, I went orangutan trekking in Sumatra, Indonesia. In 2024, I swam with sea lions off the coast of Lima, Peru. In 2021, I met the swimming pigs in the Bahamas. For me as a huge animal lover, my Galapagos Islands Cruise was one the most memorable travel experiences of my entire life.

In addition to animal encounters, what makes me happy is being in nature and doing epic hikes and treks. In 2017, I walked the 500-mile long Camino de Santiago, after falling in love with long-distance hiking in Colombia, where I did the jungle trek to the Lost City, La Ciudad Perdida. What made me fall in love with hiking was my time spent in Patagonia, Argentina. After hiking Pacaya, an active volcano in Guatemala, I knew I had to hike the even more famous Acatenango, where you can spend the night watching nearby volcano Fuego spit fire – I returned to Guatemala in 2023 to fulfill that travel dream. Am I a bit of a thrill seeker? Looking back at the time I cycled down the Death Road in Bolivia, or the time I swam through the darkness of a giant cave in Belize trying to find Mayan skulls makes me think I may be 😉

Travelin’ ain’t always easy…dani death road

Life as digital nomads can sound glamorous and carefree, and to a certain extent, it really is. But there is a dark side to this lifestyle – the “near heart attack” when we think we’ve lost or misplaced something. Read our most embarrassing freak-out moment ever: Warning: Long-term travel may cause heart attacks…well, almost.

Becoming forgettable: How absence doesn’t always make the heart grow fonder – We are not ready to trade in this mindset-altering, life-affirming freedom that becoming nomads has given us…but we are increasingly shocked at just how forgettable this seems to have made us…This has recently become one of our top posts of all time.

dani nyc20 things we miss from home – After our first nine months on the road,  we listed some of the comforts from home that we missed the most while traveling in Central America – Read on through to the comment section, as it turns out that plenty of readers have so many of their own little things they miss from home when they travel, too, and feel free to add what you miss most when you’re traveling!

Travel Reflections…dani in arizona

While I was traveling full-time, I wrote a monthly round-up about the highs and lows of life on the road, the places I visited, what went right and what went wrong. You can check out my Life Lately… posts here.

Here are some of the recap posts we published while we were traveling as a couple, summarizing every hundred days on the road. We used to sit down and look back at the last one hundred days in our Reflections posts until we reached 1000 days of travel:

For our three-year travel-versary, we shared some random travel stats, such as how many beaches we visited, how many pizzas we ate, how many housesits we did, how many photos we took and how much money we spent.dani in gila national forest

For our two-year travel anniversary we talk about how travel has become our lifestyle, plus we count our transport, countries and how many arguments we had with each other in the last 365 days!

For our first travel anniversary, we added up how many borders we crossed, how many beds we slept in, how many different modes of transport we used and voted for our top 5 places and top 5 food experiences.

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dani with dogs in la serenaTo find out more about me and the story behind Globetrottergirls.com, head over to our About Me section. ‘Like’ me on Facebook where I share travel photos and travel articles I find around the web, share great travel news with me on Twitter, check out my boards on Pinterest, take a look at my photos on Instagram, or find my travel tips on FourSquare.