…es in school. The truth is that there isn’t too much difference to writing travel other than in writing about travel you have much more freedom to be creative. I consider myself a form of journalist, rather than simply a creative writer and my educational background is the foundation for that style in my published works. I first decided to publish after a trip to Colombia. I had been writing very boring opinion pieces like those of which I would s…
…EST hostels in Mexico! Which is amazing since I rarely like hostels. FINAL TRAVELS… TRAVEL UPDATE MEXICO: OMG! I have to leave Mexico this Saturday! Noooo… DRATS! Time’s up! My Mexican 6-month visa expires on Dec. 3rd. I have no choice but to leave. Sigh. Of course I can always return! …and I’ve already planned a 3-4 month journey in central MX/Pacific coast, which I may undertake in February. Meanwhile, on Sat. I fly back to Florida to spend Dece…
…he trip. Q7. So you made your first RTW in 2008-2009 and you launched your travel blog AsWeTravel in 2010. What did you get up to in between? We finished our first RTW trip in May 2009, and then spent a few months back in Sweden just relaxing and catching up on things. Then in November 2009 we decided to move to Switzerland to ski for the winter, during that winter we decided to start As We Travel, which we did on the 1st of February, 2010. Sofia…
…me, just having the flight in hand. How about you – where and when are you traveling next? Travel Update Florida: Fresh Bike wreck! My Front tire blew out. Loud explosion, equally loud scream (me) and then I was lying in a heap on the road. Oops. I was cycling on a quiet residential street. The explosion and scream certainly caught people’s attention! A woman ran out of her house in slippers, looking frantic, and asked if I was ok. Then a car driv…
…ties of Cuernavaca and Puebla. Learn about those gorgeous cities and other travel adventures in my September Travel Review. From Puebla I visited the attractive colonial city of Oaxaca for one week, with a surprise guided tour of Oaxaca Valley by a local Mexican ‘cowboy’ thrown in. Then I headed south to Oaxaca state’s gorgeous Pacific coast beaches. I ended up exploring those charming Bohemian beaches for more than two weeks. Although they were s…
…2009 * Running my own bakery / cafe / restaurant in Thailand- 2009-2010 * Travel blogging, author, travel writer- 2011-present LONG VERSION: Lash teaching kids Engilsh in Osaka, Japan Step 1: Teaching English in Japan and saving money to travel the world. 1991-1997 Before I graduated from university I had already decided that I was going to go travel around the world. I hadn’t figured out HOW to manage that, particularly financially, but I did kn…
…yourself as a wanderer and adventurer at heart. How/when did you catch the travel bug? I’ve always had the travel bug for as long as I can remember. I have always wanted to see and explore as much of the world as possible. Genetic I guess. Bateaux Mouches, Notre Dame, Paris France 2. How long have you been traveling? When did you take your first trip abroad? My first trip overseas was when I was 17. I was part of a summer student exchange in Paris…
…d several new articles in September, was honored to be included in two Top Travel Blog Lists and posted many FB updates about my travels to Isla Mujeres, Cuernavaca and Puebla. Following are the articles and news items I published on LashWorldTour in September. Go check out any of interest if you missed them last month. Following that are my FB travel updates from Mexico in September. Find out all about Isla Mujeres and the central Mexican Baroque…
…ut travel blog has become one of the most successful solo long-term female travelers and travel bloggers. But it wasn’t always that way. Barbara actually spent much of her life working in careers she found unsatisfying, secretly wishing to uncover her true passions and follow them. Then several years ago she fell very ill. This gave her time and motivation to more seriously identify her ‘life missions’ which turned out to be her long-time passions…
…on her site. Something that helps out everyone, including herself, fellow travel bloggers, and travel fans alike. That something is her weekly series, ‘Suzy Stumbles Over Travels’, in which she encourages fellow travelers to submit their stories. Suzy reads through all of them, makes comments on the participants’ blogs, chooses her 5 favorites of the week, then promotes them all on FB, Twitter, Stumble Upon, and her own website. Brilliant! Not…
Hi! I'm Lash, an American nomadic world traveler who's been traveling solo since 1998. I’m passionate about traveling the world nomadically and then sharing it all with you. I hope to inspire you to travel the world, to entertain you with tales from the road, and to help you reach your travel dreams. Welcome! 
