TRAVEL DIARY
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Sustainable City | Whittier California
Outside of Los Angeles and the Bay Area I’ve never truly adventured into California. Spending three days in the city of Whittier California I got the chance to see a different side of California. Whittier is a picturesque quiet city bordered by beautiful mountains with an abundance of lush rolling hills. If you time your visit right you’ll catch a glimpse of the biannual blooming Jacaranda trees, that pepper the sidewalks of the older neighborhoods. The trees, long ago imported from some far away land, are noticeable by their animated purple leaves that look ripped from the pages of a Doctor Seuss book. Whittier California is home to Whittier College…
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Anxiety and Travel? Try Anxiety Travel
I am a master at a thing, I like to call anxiety travel. By nature, I am an introvert. I have Aspergers and after a lifetime of being made to feel other, and wrong for simply existing, severe social anxiety. My greatest angst is knowing that I don’t know what to do in a given social environment. I analyze the length of my conversations and look for clues as to how to where I messed up, I scour the faces of people I interact with for a cue that tells me to backtrack or make a quick exit so I can mentally disect why it is I commited one imagined…
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Shopping in Cotonou Benin Republic
Among the many things the city of Cotonou, Benin Republic has to offer the shopping is by far one of the best. Benin is a shopping paradise of everything from fabrics to food. I travel for clothes. Five years ago I moved to Byron Bay, Australia because of a pair of leopard print bell bottoms, that spoke to my soul. Motherhood didn’t change my desire for fashion-centric travel, two years ago I dragged my family to Montreal for a mud cloth bathing suit from Nanawax and to worship at the altar of its globe-trotting founder Maureen. Maureen is from Cotonou, Benin Republic and I knew that if a powerhouse like…
