Tag: mongolia

High over the Rockie Mountains

TEXTURES of TRAVEL

Travel is all about enhancing the senses. In its basic form travel is about going on a wild ride to discover textures of the world. Watch the waves crash and foam on sandy shores as you journey coast to coast, marvel at the jagged peaks of barren ridges […]

13 Best of The Road Less Traveled

Last tuesday #TRLT celebrated its 200th consecutive chat on Twitter and discussed the topic “The Best of The Road Less Traveled”. TRLT is about discovering the unknown, venturing across borders and broadening travel horizons beyond the famous World Wonders or picture-perfect photos of destinations found in common travel […]

FRIENDLY FACES AROUND THE WORLD – PHOTO ESSAY

Travel is amazing for an unlimited number of reasons; history, ideal weather conditions, putting your feet up and relaxing in exotic locations, taking on new adventures, a platform to build lifelong memories, experiencing culture diversity and thinking outside the box…but without the friendly faces of others smiling back […]

What lies behind the path you choose

Travel Fear and Overcoming The Unknown

Last week on worldwide travel chat, “The Road Less Travelled” (#TRLT), on Twitter we discussed “The Unknown” with all of you; expert, novice and those of you who aspire to travel. Fear of the unknown is the biggest factor that holds people back from striking out in the […]

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Colour Photo Essay

Last week on #TRLT Twitter chat we discussed COLOR! Due to it’s visual nature, I felt the best way to capture this topic was with a bright and captivating photo essay from around the world. Let me take you through the emerald, horse fields of Mongolia, past the […]

PEOPLE On The Road Less Travelled

Today the parents, my sister-in-law Anita and I are flying to Vancouver, Canada! Today I’m skipping the Friday Photos and am sharing my post on PEOPLE that I wrote for our #TRLT chat a few weeks ago, originally posted on Triptime Insurance. Many people travel in search of […]

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10 TRAVEL ADVENTURES AWAITING YOU IN 2017!

I’m really excited to announce that for the past few weeks I have had the honor of working for Point Comfort Underwriters as their featured writer. You can check in every Tuesday to read a new article based on our weekly #TRLT topics. This is the first post I made […]

Photo Albums of Asia (49)

  Countries with * are ones that I have not been to yet but one or more of the family has.                AFGHANISTAN                       ARMENIA                       […]

INTERVIEW WITH BAAGII

After no communication for nearly ten years, Baagii, a major character from “I Grew My Boobs in China” Vol. 1 of Sihpromatum series, came to visit us in Holland. I was very interested to know more about Baagii and have learned so much about him during his week […]

Just Ask Baagii a Question

  After successfully capturing our Mongolian friend Baagii, who is featured in “I Grew My Boobs in China”, we promptly got ourselves lost on the way home. We have been to Schiphol, Amsterdam dozens and dozens of times, either picking up friends or departing on various trips of […]

“Baagii is Coming to Town!”

We are picking up Baagii in just TWO hours! He will be landing in Amsterdam at the Schiphol Airport, his first time ever in Holland! I cannot wait to be HIS tour guide and translator for a change. I love how things work out. I remember how he […]

Guess Who’s Coming to Holland

Baagii our guide, translator and most importantly friend from our Mongolian adventures in “I Grew My Boobs in China” is arriving in Holland tomorrow!!!                         We received a FB message from Baaggii on Tuesday night saying,“How r u Maggie. i guess what I’m going there soon […]

Finding Baagii

Was excited to find Baagii from “I Grew My Boobs in China” on FB after nearly 10 years. We were surprised and happy to learn that he lives in Sweden, only hours away from us here in Holland!! I think this calls for a small road trip in […]

7 Days and Counting

7-DAYS until launch!!! I can’t believe it’s all come down to ONE WEEK. I feel like I’m going to blink and it will all happen at once…. Don’t miss your chance to pre-order on Amazon.com.  I’m the most excited about this new addition to the book. Mom has […]