Joanna
Chic for 2 Weeks
What to wear in France? Every single piece of clothing I have packed is not going to be good enough. Not good enough for Paris, anyway. ...
I'm going where the sun keeps shining, through the pouring rain.
Going where the weather suits my clothes.
Banking off of the northeast winds, sailing on a summer breeze
And skipping over the ocean like a stone.
Henry Nilsson
Joanna
- Mar 24
- 5 min
Restless Leg Syndrome
I suffer from Restless Leg Syndrome. I have no idea when it started, but it’s something that I’ve lived with for quite a few years. Maybe...
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Joanna
- Dec 3, 2021
- 2 min
Hasta Luego 🖤
No international travel for a couple years. Cancelled plans & flights and Covid fears. Finally light at the end of a tunnel so dark....
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Joanna
- Oct 20, 2021
- 3 min
The Pre-Flight Foodie
When one is about to embark on a long, international flight, it might seem a sensible and practical thing to avoid certain trigger foods....
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Joanna
- Oct 15, 2021
- 4 min
The Perils of Packing
Packing has never been something I'm particularly good at. It's odd, because if I sit down and think about it, my mother was always a...
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Joanna
- Feb 13, 2021
- 2 min
Where Will You Go?
For Joanna McBride travel has always been about adventure and the resulting stories When this is all over, I’m going to Ecuador....
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Joanna
- Dec 8, 2019
- 3 min
Unusual Bleeding & Bit by Animals
My favourite part of travel preparation is, of course, without a doubt, the realization that there is a foreign plethora of of disease...
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Joanna
- Dec 6, 2019
- 3 min
I'm Going to Get Shot
This is how most of my conversations go... I begin by saying, simply, "I'm going to Africa." In most circumstances, this is followed by a...
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Joanna
- Nov 22, 2018
- 6 min
Leaving for the Peanut Sauce
When you opt out of taking a hotel for the night before your flight, and instead wander the streets, eating and drinking whatever you...
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Joanna
- Nov 5, 2018
- 12 min
Just a Girl and her Bike
Located in the Gulf of Thailand, I had read that Phú Quốc was known as the pearl of Vietnam. Its white sand beaches, palm-lined coast...
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Joanna
- Oct 28, 2018
- 2 min
Why Vietnam?
Honestly... this is both a tough and an easy question. When people ask me "Why Vietnam?," a bunch of fabricated, yet well thought-out...
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Joanna
- Feb 9, 2018
- 3 min
And then this Little Piggy went home...
I had to say Goodbye to Ecuador. It was really tough. I was thinking of staying longer, exhausting my entire bank account .. and then...
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