5 Tips to Plunge into Festival Season
Are you ready for this festival season? Here are some tips to help you fully prepare! Festival season is ripe and in full swing. You’ve got your tickets purchased. You’ve bought a million glow sticks for night time. And you’ve loaded up the car with your tent, sleeping bag and food for the weekend. Now [...]
5 Reasons Why Being a Female Traveler is Awesome
Nowadays, it’s easy to get caught up in the fear of traveling alone. Buying a flight ticket without a travel companion is like jumping into a pool backwards. There are moments when you linger on the verge wondering if you should actually do it, and many times, you back off. There’s certainly a lot to [...]
A Tribute to the Men Who Raise Powerful Women
I was having lunch the other day with a couple of men that I knew casually through a friend. They’re fellow bloggers and we were sharing stories about our “craft” together. They asked me what kind of blog I write, and I told them I edit a women’s travel magazine. You could pinpoint exactly when [...]
One Thing My Father Left Me
“Daddy, I saw the Concord!!” I sputtered. I was six years old and had just returned from my first overseas trip to the UK. As I met my dad at the airport I excitedly began to tell him all about my visit to the cockpit of the airplane we were on (back in the day [...]
The Travelin’ Daughter and the Troubled Dad
Some Fathers' Day Reassurance!
Dads, letting your daughter explore the world can be the best gift you can give her. Photo from National Geographic Creative Commons. It’s natural for a father to be concerned about his children no matter where they are in the world, but it seems that travelin’ daughters can make for troubled dads. This Father’s Day, [...]
You Snooze, You Lose: 5 Tips to Conquer the Infamous Jet Lag
I’m a big believer in the power of the mind. It’s amazing what we can make ourselves believe if we put our minds to it, both what we are capable of and what we can talk ourselves out of. That isn’t to say that the mind alone can necessarily ‘cure’ us of our fears, phobias, [...]
#girlstravel Featured on Mashable!
Great news! Go Girl and our original #girlstravel Twitter chat were featured on Mashable today! Check out their article here, and don’t forget to miss a special one-hour Twitter chat on Monday with @MashLifestyle and @GirlsThatTravel talking travel tech for women! Read more details about the chat here, and see you on Monday!
Top 5 In-Flight Frustrations
We can’t all have perfect flights. This photo from http://conversation.which.co.uk. Go Girls love to travel and explore. We know how to pack light and adjust to the ups and downs of the travel process, but that doesn’t mean we appreciate each of the “downs” equally. Even within one mode of transport–in this case, airplane travel–there [...]
Prohibition Excursion
With the release of The Great Gatsby movie, era-inspired clothes have popped up in retail stores, themed soirees are being held (check out Governor’s Island), and the original book sales have soared. Given the recent, dramatic spike in the interest of the 1920’s, visiting a New York speakeasy seemed timely. Despite the drop of the [...]
, and the original book sales have soared. Given the recent, dramatic spike in the interest of the 1920’s, visiting a New York speakeasy seemed timely. Despite the drop of the [...] "Pin It")
