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Amanda Burgess
Amanda Burgess is a Toronto-based writer and creative strategist whose bags are always packed for her next adventure. She is a member of the Society of American Travel Writers (SATW), and a Certified Cancer Journey Coach who creates a safe space for cancer patients and caregivers to design their dream lives – while living with cancer, and on the other side of it.
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Tattoo Tourism: Why I Got Three Tattoos on a Three-Country Adventure
Amanda Burgess shares her tattoo tourism story. Learn the meaning behind the tattoos she got on a two-month travel adventure spanning three countries.
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If your TravelReady goals for 2022 include improving your health and fitness, this article—and the get travel-fit tips developed by yours truly and 56-year-old ultra-runner Beth Whitman—will help you put your best foot forward.
Solo Travel Memoirs: Marking a Cancer Journey in Ink
Every tattoo tells a story. Canadian Christine Pope’s latest tattoos tell stories of strength, resilience, hope, and life after breast cancer.
Expert Tips for Women to Manage Travel Fear and Anxiety
Master life coach Debbie Phillips shares her expert tips for women to manage travel fear and anxiety in a post-pandemic world.
Solo Travel Memoirs: How Photography Leads One Woman on New Journeys
Women travellers share the deep interests, hobbies, and passions that they weave into their travels or build entire trips around.
Solo Travel Memoirs: Finding Yourself & Your Purpose in Volunteer Travel
The story of how a woman who saw herself as a lonely outsider found belonging in volunteer travel opportunities, serving marginalized populations in Canada, India and beyond.
Unique Accommodations: 8 Places You’ll Want to Travel to
Eight women travellers share the most unique accommodations they’ve ever booked in far-flung destinations around the world.
Solo Travel Memoirs: Following Your Passion
In the first article in a series exploring interest-based travel, we recount the story of a travelling storyteller from Colombia who made her passion her soul’s purpose.
7 Tips to Take the First Step into Solo Travel After Loss
Women travellers and experts offer tips and wisdom on taking the first shaky step into solo travel after loss.
Travel After Loss: From a Disaster Trip to Solo Bliss
After a disastrous first post-loss trip with a fellow widow, a solo traveller learns that the only way to get what she wants out of travel is to go solo.
Travel After Loss: Getting Back Into the Solo Travel Saddle
Diving headfirst back into solo travel after losing her husband helps a widowed traveller find herself again.
Just Do It: Widows Who Have Travelled Solo After Loss
A widowed traveller finds strength and healing in the self-reflection and challenge of solo travel and never looks back.
Surprising Ways Women Splurge and Save on Travel
Learn what savvy women travellers splurge on – and their tips to help you deepen your next travel experience, even when you’re on a budget.
7 Ways to Save Money on Travel from Budget-Savvy Women
Women divulge their top tips to save money on airfare, meals and accommodations – without sacrificing on experience.
