I was excited once plans were locked in to go home, although I knew that this would be a different kind of trip. This plan was a part of my larger Voting plan. Earlier this year, I made the comment that the only thing that would get me back home to Georgia during this time was to cast my vote in the Presidential election. Now I’d found that statement coming true…… Read More Homeward Bound: Journeying to the Vote
One of my ultimate visions is that this blog will serve as a space of community, uplift, and encouragement for women on the things that make us uniquely ourselves. We are encouraged to think of life milestones like graduate college, get the job, get married, have kids. However, there is so much more to the intricacies of our lives. This will be a space to discuss, share, and celebrate THE MORE!… Read More Announcing The Wanderers’ Corner: Your Gift
With the travel, adjustments, and lifestyle changes, including getting used to living a place that had a real winter, my first few months were spent trying to get comfortable and feel consistent in the city. I had set my sights on March as the month that things would get a bit warmer; I’d be travel free; and I’d have time to really start to be social, meet people, and build a life. I was able to do one brunch; then BOOM, I found myself being put on work from home due to the coronavirus. While I am grateful to still be working, this was not how I expected my move to go. . I thought going to Niagara Falls was going to be the start of a continual high. Now the changes that I was prepared for now had their own changes on top of changes….… Read More Niagara Falls Queen to a DMV Quarantine: Making Space During Change
Visiting both of these places in the same year highlighted for me that Black History and the work for equity here and across the world comes with so many layers and pieces. MLK Jr. had his dream in the same place where years later a form of music would be birthed out of the poverty and struggle of those that he had been fighting for.… Read More BLACKLANTA – The National Center for Civil and Human Rights to the Trap Music Museum
Saturday morning, we found ourselves slowly creeping out of bed with the sun already up, later than planned to start our 1.5 hour drive to the Grand Canyon South Rim. I truly think that Arizona has some of the prettiest drives because the diversity in the landscape in just an hour was stunning. We got to the Grand Canyon around 11:30 am, and it was already busy.… Read More Arizona – Small Girl at The Grand Canyon
It was the day to visit the site of my last Georgia 7 Natural Wonders, the Okefenokee Swamp, and we were now on a time crunch…When we finally woke up, it was already 9am, so we were now within a very narrow of window of being able to make it to the park and actually tour the swamp at all. … Read More Okefenokee Swamp – The Final Georgia Natural Wonder
As I came to the end of my three-and-a-half-hour drive, I began to feel another feeling, anxious. The road had gone through a neighborhood and hit a dead end with only an old white fence in front of me. I saw no other people around. I was so sure that I had come to the wrong place that I went to a gas station up the street to buy a snack and regroup. … Read More Radium Springs – A Solo Adventure
Here I was with one of the natural wonders in my backyard, literally 5 minutes from my house, and I only just now realized that it was one.… Read More Stone Mountain – The Wonder in My Backyard
Getting up for this adventure found me and my mom taking our time lazing about drinking tea and making breakfast. We were excited to get on the road, but sometimes there is nothing like a cozy Saturday morning at home to start the day, especially with February giving us some just right weather on this day. Warm Springs is about an hour outside of Atlanta and a location that is filed with more history sites than actual activities that will get you dirty like any of my other visits. My mom also likes to visit different historical places, so we did this trip as a mother-daughter adventure. … Read More Warm Springs – A Mother-Daughter Adventure
At one point, we were so close to the top of the canyon that we were only a couple of feet from the actual top edge…… Read More Providence Canyon – Georgia’s Mini Grand Canyon