HerStory: Make My Spirit Fly –My Farm in Maryland [part 2]
Guest post by Malou L. Sayson Note: This is the second part of the two-part travel memoir written by The Gypsygals first ever guest poster – Maryland-based Filipina writer Malou Sayson. You can read the first part here. HerStory is a new section in The Gypsygals, a space for my fellow female travelers to write...
HerStory: Make My Spirit Fly -Winter in Maryland (part 1)
Text and Photos by Malou L. Sayson Note: This is the first part of the two-part travel memoir written by my friend and The Gypsygals first ever guest poster – Maryland-based Filipina writer Malou Sayson. HerStory is a new section in The Gypsygals, a space for my fellow female travelers to write about their...
Get your free guide for solo female travelers!!
by Prime Sarmiento Here's something I learned while traveling on my own – a lot of women want to go on their personal adventures but just don't know where to start. You want to travel on your own. But you have a lot of questions, concerns, fears, angsts. You have read tons of...
Q & A: Alexis Grant talks about writing a travel memoir
interview by Prime Sarmiento At a time when everyone and her pet monkey can travel and launch a travel blog, I find it fascinating that there are people who are committed in writing a travel memoir. After all, if you can just blog about all the places that you've been too, why bother...
Travel blogging starts with good writing
text by Prime Sarmiento photo by Nina Sarmiento What makes a good travel blog? Nice photos? Traveling to exotic places? Blogging every day? Hanging out in Facebook to persuade more people to join your fan page? Each travel blogger may have a different answer. But as far as this Gypsygal is...
Soulcraft: My Travel Dreamboard
posted by Prime Sarmiento My mother used to say that Christmas was for kids while Easter Sunday was Christmas for adults. I was a child then and hardly understood what my mother meant. The Christians view Easter as the day to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ. But for others, Easter is...
So… you wanna be a travel writer?
posted by: Prime Sarmiento It's everyone's dream job: be paid to travel, become a travel writer! The problem of course is that people who expect to lead a glamorous life as a travel writer will learn later that…this is not a career for someone who wants to get rich (or just earn a decent living)...
Focus and enjoy the journey
text by Prime Sarmiento photos by Nina Sarmiento I used to have "passport envy". I love to travel but I also treated it like a contest. Whenever I heard my friends/acquaintances/colleagues talked about their holidays abroad or business trips, I usually butt in and brag about the many countries that I visited. If I know...
Q & A: Janet De Neefe talks about the Ubud Writers Festival
interview by: Prime Sarmiento Janet de Neefe is the founder and festival director of the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival, an annual literary festival held every October in Bali, Indonesia. The Australia-born De Neefe has been living in Bali for the last twenty years. Widely regarded as the "Queen of Ubud", de Neefe is...
Finding the time for travel writing
I love to travel and I love to write about it because it’s the best way for me to communicate what I felt, seen, heard, tasted as a true blue gypsygal. What is frustrating, however, is that there are busy days and it was hard to do some travel writing (I tried writing in a...
Writing is about finding time and space
posted by Prime Sarmiento A colleague asked me if I needed to go to Baguio just to write a thesis proposal for my graduate degree in anthropology. She can’t understand why I need to go all the way to Baguio, travel by bus by around six hours or more, for something that I could have...