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This Week in Ethical Travel: Passport Privilege
Everything is packed, you’ve made sure you have everything you need in your suitcase before you head to the airport. You grab your passport and off you go. For so many of us, we can just book a trip and plan a vacation, stress free. For so many more of us, we have to go through dozens of documents just to get the go ahead to begin even the planning phase of a holiday. Passports hold either so much promise for exploring new places or so much strife as a reminder of restriction, all in one little book. Why are passports part of ethical tourism? Part of being an ethical…
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The time I ACTUALLY stopped talking: My First Silent Retreat
Duck Tape. Â That’s what we thought may be the only thing to keep this mouth of mine shut for our silent retreat, but luckily I didn’t need to walk around for days with it on and I ended up learning to be quiet on my own. I had thought about going to a silent retreat when a friend went in Thailand and when she said it was an “interesting and challenging experience” I knew I wanted to see if I could test myself and really try to go outside of my comfort zone by being in complete silence for several days. Â Thinking more about it I realized that even…
