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Eat, Pray, Love – Why It Makes Us Crazy

Posted on August 12, 2010 | 4 Comments
The My Dog Ate My Blog recently published a great piece called Eat, Pray, Love and our Perpetual Pursuit of Happiness where they raised the interesting and polarizing phenomenon that is the Elizabeth Gilbert book – they emailed me and invited me to comment on...
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Eat, Pray, Love and Safety in Women’s Solo Travel

Posted on August 3, 2010 | 6 Comments
As the cinematic release of the Elizabeth Gilbert’s best selling travel memoir Eat, Pray, Love draws nearer it is inevitable that people will become engaged in debating not just the artistic merit of the book and movie, but also the phenomenon of women undertaking travel...
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Solo Travel: How Traveling to Paris Alone Changed My Life

Posted on July 8, 2010 | 27 Comments
Four years ago I wasn’t very well traveled outside of my native North America. I’d seen most of the major centers in Canada and the tourist circuit in the United States, but I’d never been abroad and, apart from a winter vacation to a resort...
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