Running toward me with outstretched arms she shouted with glee, “You are an answered prayer.” I thought to myself, “Wow that a wonderful (or snazzy) thing to be!” Engulfing me in her embrace she began to tell me that she had been producing retreats for the internationally for the past10 years and decided recently she …
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I discriminate and its legal. I rent exclusively to my own kind and I have been doing it successfully for 27 years. I only rent to dog people, e.g., people who share their lives with dogs. Having a “dog’s only” policy over the years has confirmed what I instinctively knew from the onset, responsible dog …
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I’ve climbed mountains, rocks, trees, and even a vertical San Francisco street. But I never climbed a river until I hiked up the Franz Joseph Glacier, a colossal river of ice in New Zealand. It started innocently when I joined the Magic Bus, one of New Zealand’s independent traveler’s network, which provides hop on–hop off …
“Am I in Africa or the Americas?” It was a question I asked myself often during the African heritage pride festivals that I attended in Belize, Central America. Commonly known as the Settlement Day Festival, the Garifuna (gah-REE-foo-nah) people of Belize celebrate their arrival on the southern Caribbean shores of Belize every November 19th, with …
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The biggest surprise about traveling internationally was to discover that in many parts of the world it is an asset to be a black woman, unlike in North America, where it is often a liability. When I am abroad, I am usually afforded a level of respect and appreciation that I do not get in …
“To travel is to dance” is a traditional Bantu saying that captures the feeling that I had after recently returning from my second solo sojourn around the world. Through the orchestration of time, money and movement the journey was a wondrous adventure full of excitement, natural beauty, challenges, miracles, joy, surprises and remarkable expressions of …
Longing for adventure, but leery about journeying too far from home? Seeking to experience something different, but your cash flow is abit lean? Then consider a visit to our continental cousin to the north: Canada! Foreign yet familiar, it is beautiful, exciting, safe, pristine, friendly, and you don’t have to learn a new language or …
Outdoor recreation in this country poorly reflects the racially diverse face of America and the world at large. There’s a racially significant divide between those who choose to recreate outdoors and those who do not. I call it The Adventure Gap. ~ James Mills Written by Elaine Lee, Esq. in consultation with James Mills, creator of …
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Recent Advancements in African American Travel New and exciting things are happening in the world of the African American adventure traveler. In 2006, with little fanfare, Sophia Danenberg became the first African American woman to reach the top of Mount Everest. Nomadness Travel Tribe, an African American adventure and international travel Facebook group founded in …
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