Month: November 2010
WFP Staff’s Perspective on Women in Afghanistan
Friends, family and blog readers who’ve been following since before I launched SoloTravelGirl.com, know I visited Afghanistan in 2006. For those who don’t know, I traveled with Global Exchange on a 10-day trip to Kabul with the focus on women making change in a post-Taliban society. (You can read the blog posts from the trip […]
Continue ReadingZipping Around in a Smart Car
You’ve seen the smart cars, they’re small, compact and apparently really good on fuel. Yesterday I had a chance to take one for a test drive during the Green Futures Expo at the Charlotte Harbor Event & Conference Center in Punta Gorda, Fla.
Continue ReadingNight at the Sarasota Opera
I saw “La Cenerentola” (Cinderella) at the Sarasota Opera Wednesday night. There was no fairy godmother, no singing mice, no pumpkin-to-carriage-to-pumpkin vehicle, and no glass slipper. Yes, my cultural exposure of Cinderella prior to that evening has been the Disney version. Thankfully, the core of the animated version is much like the opera version: Cinderella […]
Continue ReadingWordless Wednesday: Oil-Free Florida Beach
Saturday was The Great VISIT FLORIDA Beach Walk. I walked my 2+ miles at Stump Pass Beach State Park and uploaded it to www.visitfloridabeachwalk.com to show the world my stretch of beach is oil-free . This week’s image is one of the most interesting things I found that morning, although if I had time, I’m […]
Continue ReadingFree Wi-Fi on Select Flights this 2010 Holiday Season
Not sure about you but I’m not a fan of traveling over the holidays. It’s the anxiety of missing a connection, having luggage lost and even worse, spending the holiday in an airport terminal.
Continue ReadingDo the Photos We Capture Define Who We Are?
I’ve been using a camera for about as long as I can remember. Not sure when I received my first Kodak but know it was sometime in elementary school. I took photos of everything to document what was happening around me, remember what I saw, and be a storyteller.
Continue ReadingWalking My Florida Beach to Show it’s Fabulous!
As I blogged a couple times last month, today was The Great VISIT FLORIDA Beach Walk on Florida’s 825 miles of beaches. I walked about 2.5 miles – because when you walk out, you have to walk back – on a gorgeous Saturday morning. Yeah, it was a bit chillier than usual, a cold front […]
Continue ReadingDining at Queen of Sheba in Washington, D.C.
More than two years ago I met a kind gentleman on a flight between Atlanta and Tallahassee. We began talking, I asked if he had a tattoo because he was from Portland, Ore., and of the other things I remembered about our 36-minute flight was his culinary recommendation: Ethiopian. He had been a missionary in […]
Continue ReadingWordless Wednesday: Pigs in D.C.
I was really hoping to post an image from the Space Shuttle launch but it’s been postponed from Monday, to today to tomorrow. Looks like I’m just not destined to see one. Instead, enjoy this photo captured in D.C. over the weekend following the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear. I’m guessing these guys were […]
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