I’m going to do something I don’t do very much on this here blog.

I’m going to write about a subject I am actually qualified to write about.

Just don’t get too used to it, okay?

After all, I’d hate to ruin my reputation as a totally unreliable source of information on the Internet.

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I have a confession to make.

You see.

Well.

I don’t know how to say this.

But.

The thing is…

Umm.

Okay. I’ll just come right out with it:

Idon’tfeelliketravelinganymore.

Phew, I said it!

What’s that? You didn’t understand me?

Okay, fine. I’ll type a little more slowly this time:

I. Don’t. Feel. [...]

A couple months ago, I got an email from a young woman who was planning on moving to China to teach English. After reading several blog posts and articles by other female travelers about the treatment of Western women in this part of the world, she was concerned. She’d read stories of women being [...]

This weekend, I’ll be heading to Xi’an, home of the Terracotta Warriors, to hang out with an American friend I met in Japan. This is the only real trip I have planned for my whole summer, so I’m pretty excited about it.

I haven’t traveled with this friend before, but I have a feeling [...]

It’s not easy being big in Asia.

And not, like, big-in-a-famous kind of way, but big-in-a-we-don’t-sell-your-size-here-so-don’t-even-try kind of way.

I know what you’re going to say — “But, Sally, you’re not fat!” (You were going to say that, right?! RIGHT?!).

It’s true.

I’m not fat… in America.

As far as Americans go, I’d say [...]