World Travel – Goode Travels

Tirta Empul Bali

I hadn’t expected to feel anything. I thought I would write about how the water felt as it splashed over my head or the rounding of stones under my heels but I hadn’t expected to actually feel – in my soul. Made (pronounced Ma-Day) drove us to Tirta Empul, the water temple outside of…

Cor-J Seafood

A splash of blood hit the floor. It looked like I had just been shoved through the back door of a slaughterhouse and I was interrupting their daily tasks. Was I in the right place? Had we missed the entrance? The smell of fish filled my nostrils with only two feet between me and the…

Sanctuary City: Part Two

As promised, this second post is about being home and taking refuge in the place that we rest and come back to. I live in San Francisco, CA. I have lived in this city for over 12 years and I am also a Bay Area native. I am happy to have grown up in a…

Travel in Trump Era

I’m going to apologize right now. Things are about to get political, real political. And if you don’t like it or you don’t want to hear it, then I advise you stop reading right now…It’s your choice. I’m sorry that it’s come to this. Things in America have been a little rocky these past few […]

The All Seeing Eye

“I’m Jimmy the Gypsy. I’m from Ireland,” a man with faded tattoos down his arms and a toothless grin tells me as I sit in the grass of Jubilee Gardens watching the London Eye during the 2015 Festival of Love in Southbank. “I’m a psychic,” he goes on. He and his friend had just finished smoking…

Lost Luggage in London

Summer 2015, IcelandAir lost my luggage on my way to London. The city was in the middle of a record setting heatwave and the only clothes on my back were the ones I was wearing in frigid Iceland the day before, a coat, sweater, pants and heeled boots. My dresses and sandals for a Cambridge…