https://grrrltraveler.com A Female Solo Travel Blog | It's not a vacation until you survive it! Mon, 16 Sep 2024 13:27:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://grrrltraveler.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/favicon.gif https://grrrltraveler.com 32 32 https://grrrltraveler.com/travel-and-falling-off-the-wagon-at-40/ https://grrrltraveler.com/travel-and-falling-off-the-wagon-at-40/#comments Wed, 30 Jul 2014 03:02:03 +0000 http://grrrltraveler.com/?p=39646  Los Angeles. I looked out at the smog-clouded city and its diorama of  street grids, freeways and moving car ants.  Giant Hollywood film billboards dot buildings as a reminder of an urban succubus, wooing millions of young, aspiring artists to live out their sparkle in the hope for fame.  This city would surely have more opportunities to work and travel than where I’m currently at. But...]]> https://grrrltraveler.com/travel-and-falling-off-the-wagon-at-40/feed/ 25 https://grrrltraveler.com/make-money-traveling/ https://grrrltraveler.com/make-money-traveling/#comments Mon, 28 Apr 2014 20:37:30 +0000 http://grrrltraveler.com/?p=42309   If your dream is to travel or live abroad, you’ve probably wondered How to make money traveling and which jobs pay you to travel ?  I get it. The traditional answer to making money for travel is a lackluster one-  work at a 9-5  job at home, live frugally and sock your money away...]]> https://grrrltraveler.com/make-money-traveling/feed/ 13 https://grrrltraveler.com/last-minute-trips-things-i-did-well/ https://grrrltraveler.com/last-minute-trips-things-i-did-well/#comments Sat, 12 Jan 2013 14:19:19 +0000 http://grrrltraveler.com/?p=33433 https://grrrltraveler.com/last-minute-trips-things-i-did-well/feed/ 1 https://grrrltraveler.com/last-minute-trips/ https://grrrltraveler.com/last-minute-trips/#comments Mon, 07 Jan 2013 04:33:26 +0000 http://grrrltraveler.com/?p=33244 Planning. Like life, booking travel abroad generally involves a fair bit of planning. Or so I thought… Last year, people asked me if I had a travel plans. What a ridiculous question-- of course I had plans! ]]> https://grrrltraveler.com/last-minute-trips/feed/ 14 https://grrrltraveler.com/why-travel/ https://grrrltraveler.com/why-travel/#comments Sat, 22 Dec 2012 16:08:28 +0000 http://grrrltraveler.com/?p=30239 A few months at most... I'll go back home just long enough to find another job to get me back to Korea." That's what I told myself. Returning to the U.S. was the furthest thing from my plan. My Hindu astrologer in Dharamsala quoted a year. I had difficulty believing him. A year later,... the stars were right.]]> https://grrrltraveler.com/why-travel/feed/ 22 https://grrrltraveler.com/restart-your-career-after-a-gap-year-7-tips/ https://grrrltraveler.com/restart-your-career-after-a-gap-year-7-tips/#comments Mon, 03 Dec 2012 19:36:46 +0000 http://grrrltraveler.com/?p=33163 Here are 7 tips to Starting Over: • Find a job... any job. It doesn't matter what your major or career was before you left. ]]> https://grrrltraveler.com/restart-your-career-after-a-gap-year-7-tips/feed/ 10 https://grrrltraveler.com/gap-year-starting-over/ https://grrrltraveler.com/gap-year-starting-over/#comments Sun, 25 Nov 2012 19:30:43 +0000 http://grrrltraveler.com/?p=33001 Returning to the U.S. after two years abroad was the bravest move I could make. It also occasionally has felt like the stupidest. There's only one fear which plagues the backseat of every gap year | long-term traveler| expat's insecurity...]]> https://grrrltraveler.com/gap-year-starting-over/feed/ 24 https://grrrltraveler.com/returning-from-a-gap-year/ https://grrrltraveler.com/returning-from-a-gap-year/#comments Mon, 22 Oct 2012 14:15:31 +0000 http://grrrltraveler.com/?p=31828 How did it feel being back in the U.S.? I'm going to be honest. It kinda blew.]]> https://grrrltraveler.com/returning-from-a-gap-year/feed/ 83 https://grrrltraveler.com/how-to-succeed-at-university-job-interviews-in-korea/ https://grrrltraveler.com/how-to-succeed-at-university-job-interviews-in-korea/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:46:51 +0000 http://grrrltraveler.com/?p=16401 The majority foreigners working in Korea teach English. As a foreigner, getting a job offer to teach a specialty aside from English is unlikely. Not impossible. It's just not a job that you'll find commonly posted for a foreigner.]]> https://grrrltraveler.com/how-to-succeed-at-university-job-interviews-in-korea/feed/ 32 https://grrrltraveler.com/a-day-in-a-life-of-esl-teacher/ https://grrrltraveler.com/a-day-in-a-life-of-esl-teacher/#comments Tue, 08 Feb 2011 11:27:40 +0000 http://grrrltraveler.com/?p=29742 A Day in a Life of an MTV Producer turned ESL Teacher (Part 2)]]> https://grrrltraveler.com/a-day-in-a-life-of-esl-teacher/feed/ 2