Naples, Italy, is a city renowned for its rich history with stunning architecture, ancient ruins and lovely piazzas—not to be confused with pizza, which by the way, is fantastic there. It is, after all, the birthplace of pizza. Naples is also known for its graffiti, which is…literally…everywhere. In many cases, it is […]
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Eat, pray, love? Drink, bike, shop? Can travel help with the grieving process?
Nearly a year after losing my mom to metastatic small cell lung cancer, I was still grappling with waves of grief. As the one-year anniversary approached, I felt an urgent need to escape—to embark on a journey that would take me far from my regular life and, hopefully, offer some […]
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The day the bus (blog) crashed…and how a Pakistani man named Hamid saved it
I never thought I’d be facing the digital equivalent of a fatal bus crash, but there I was, last fall, staring at the wreckage of my beloved travel blog, chickybus. A blank webpage with nothing on it except the word ‘suspended’ and the name of the webhost. It began […]
Read MoreBlindfolded and Force-fed Baby Food in Mexico! (Random Travel Moment #9) – chickybus
“Want to go to a Mexican baby shower?” asked Jeanne, a woman I’d just met hours before. We were at a bar in La Paz, Baja Sur, and she was a friend of a friend–someone I’d met randomly on a shuttle bus (click here for that story). The mother-to-be was […]
Read MoreDialog in the Dark: Journey into Blind Awareness | Chicky Bus
Photo credit: þä½ “The only way to learn is through encounters.” —Martin Buber With blurry vision and a semi-paralyzed face, I sit in front of my computer, struggling to write, pausing every few minutes to rest. I fantasize about being somewhere else, someone else (non-disabled)….and in a completely different moment. […]
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