Love, Loss & Life: A Solo Female Traveler’s Journey Within

  Book review: They Only Eat Their Husbands: A Memoir of Alaskan Love, World Travel, and the Power of Running Away by Cara Lopez Lee Published by Ghost Road Press   Reviewer:  Prime Sarmiento           I'm not one to judge a book by its cover, but I do judge the book...

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...

The Gypsygal Caravan: The “Honor My (Travel) Writing” Edition

curated by Prime Sarmiento     One of the interesting e-mails that landed in my inbox was a weekly soulcare mesagge from Rachelle Mee-Chapman, spiritual director of Flock, an online community for women looking for "a spirituality that fits."   In that e-mail, Rachelle asked us Flock members how we want to honor our work....

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...

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...

My (not so) secret writing place

REVIEW : Bliss Homestay in Baguio City Posted by Prime Sarmiento I went on a personal writing retreat early this month in Baguio and thanks to its cool weather and right vibe, I managed to finish a couple of blog posts, the first draft of my graduate thesis proposal, and an analysis piece that I...

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