Travel Essays / Blogs By A Broad (Sometimes) Abroad

 
From 1988 through 1998, I took camping, hiking and road trips in various parts of the USA I always wrote about them, but at first, just for myself, for when I was old and wanted to remember my exciting young life... When I got Internet access in the early 1990s, I started sending them to friends. But I didn't post my travelogues to the Web until I moved to Germany.

Those European stories have generated a lot of positive feedback from people, particularly people who want to travel abroad but have found a thousand reasons not to. So I dug up some of my old U.S. road trip stories that I had sent via email, and have posted them here.

I hope it will inspire others, particularly women in the US, to travel and see their country, and even go outside the borders of the country. I realize that the stuff from the 1990s is very dated, but I hope still worth reading. At the very least, you will get some decent leads on where to camp.

   

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Asia, Africa, Australia, Central & South America

My first trip to Egypt (May 30 - June 3, 2002)

Jayne returns to Egypt (April 2003)

Jordan, Brought to You By Pepsi (January 2006)

Afghanistan: Kabul Jayne Too (March - August 2007)

Mexico City & Puebla, Mexico (July 2011)

  USA Road Trips

Trippy Texas: My First Camping Trip in West Texas (1997)

Ms Cravens Goes to Washington (December 1996)

Journey to Start Over in Austin, Texas (October 1996)

A road trip from California to the Carolinas and back again (May 1996)

Recommendations for your trip to San Francisco -- and beyond!

Road trip from Kentucky to Oregon (August 2009)

Australia 2010

Motorcycle trip through Jasper, Banff,
Kooteney & Glacier National Park
September 2010

Yellowstone June 2011

 

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