Paloma was most likely one in every of my first followers on Instagram. IDK how she discovered me or how I discovered her, however as budding bloggers, we immediately clicked. We had been each looking for our voices within the running a blog world, identities in social media and simply attempting to get within the recreation. However what we did know was that we cherished to journey.
Over time we settled into our routine, running a blog about our specific topics that us. Paloma spoke of touring and guides associated to her nervousness (a really uncooked and informative POV) and I babbled on about embarrassing tales and metropolis guides.
And through this time, do you need to know the one factor that didn’t go away? The quantity of help I’ve obtained from Paloma!
This lady shouldn’t be solely an amazing story teller with wonderful perception for these touring with nervousness issues, however she’s additionally a very good pal (although we’ve by no means truly met in particular person). Which is why I’m beginning my collection with the lady who helped give me the braveness to get going!
1. Inform us just a little bit about your self and your weblog!
Hmm, okay properly, just a few little factoids: I grew up within the Bay Space, however am at present residing within the PNW. I like studying and imagine it’s the subsequent neatest thing to journey. I’ve my Masters in Writing from The College of The Artwork Institute of Chicago.
My weblog, Anxious Traveler, is about what it’s like for me to journey the world with an nervousness and panic dysfunction.
2. How did you get into running a blog?
I first began my weblog after I left on a 3 month journey to India, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Turkey, and extra on my own. I wasn’t precisely positive what I needed my weblog to be at first, all I knew was that I cherished writing and needed to search out an outlet for it.
Shortly although, I realized that I returned time and again to writing about not simply journey, however my nervousness when it got here to touring.
I’ve had an nervousness and panic dysfunction for many of my life, however had all the time been so embarrassed by it. Opening up and writing about it turned out to be extremely therapeutic in so some ways. It helped me to study extra about myself and never be ashamed of my psychological well being, and it helped me to comprehend that there are such a lot of others on the market who take care of the identical actual points.
3. How lengthy have you ever been touring? What’s your favourite vacation spot?
Once I was ten my mother and father took me and my brothers to Europe! Each of my mother and father are big vacationers themselves. They’ve lived all around the world. I nonetheless keep in mind driving round Europe with them on that first journey and having them level out all the totally different locations that they’d lived whereas we had been there.
My favourite vacation spot… Wow, that’s a tough one… Actually, proper now it’s most likely San Francisco, aka, HOME! Simply because I don’t reside there in the mean time and miss it extremely! However after that… Paris. I LOVE Paris with each fiber of my being. There’s simply one thing about it that speaks to my soul each time I go to.
Most likely after I bought kicked out of Vipassana whereas I used to be in India.
I had gone due to all of the wonderful issues I’d heard about it. I like yoga and meditation and am truly a licensed yoga teacher, so I believed it could be proper up my alley.
I cherished the meditation half, however I had an enormous drawback with the movies they present you on the finish of every day. I feel that for some individuals they are often actually enlightening, and many others, however I simply bought a bizarre cult-y vibe from all of it.
