How Mary Conquered Her Fear of Water & Learned To Love Scuba! I’ve had a crippling fear of water (specifically, putting my face into it) ever since I was little. For two weeks Keep Reading
Shooting Star: An Ode To My Daughter, On Her 11th Birthday
An Ode To My Daughter, On Her 11th Birthday I had very little interest in becoming a father. And who could blame me? My relationship with my own father was tempestuous at Keep Reading
Our Happy Place- A Celebration of Staycations
Our Happy Place A Celebration of Staycations Some of my favorite memories of my childhood, growing up in metro Atlanta, are of "staycations" at the cabin my grandparents bought on Lake Keep Reading
How To Live A Happy Life: 5 Secrets To Improvising Your Life
There have been many times in my life when I could've seriously used some advice on how to be happier. If you've read about my teenage struggle with depression and self-injury, my months of being Keep Reading
Bret & Mary– A Story About Love (How Green Global Travel Was Born)
I was miserable. It was the week after Thanksgiving, I'd just broken up with a girl I was really into because she wasn't ready for a commitment, and I was desperate for something, ANYTHING that Keep Reading
CouchSurfing 101: Facts & Fiction About Travel’s Fastest-Growing Community
(The following is a guest post by Katrina Stovold of Tour Absurd. You can follow her on Twitter at @TourAbsurd. If you’re a travel writer interested in submitting an idea for a future Keep Reading
The Negatives Of Traveling (& How To Avoid Them)
The Negatives Of Traveling (& How To Avoid Them) Confession time: I hate travel. I came to this shocking revelation during our trip to the ecotourism paradise of Dominica Keep Reading
How To Work With Interns: A Step-By-Step Guide
How to Work with Interns Step-By-Step Guide Interns can be a huge help to any business, and a good internship experience can be a HUGE leg up for anyone trying to establish a Keep Reading
The Bee Gees, Rites of Passage & Staying Alive
The Bee Gees, Rites of Passage & Staying Alive It was weird to learn last night that Robin Gibb had died after a long and difficult battle with cancer. Weird not only because, as a Keep Reading
GO GREEN TIP #90: Homemade Natural Hair Care Products
Homemade Natural Hair Care Products As the Spring weather gets warmer and we start spending more time outside, our health and beauty needs change. Chlorine damage from the pool, ultraviolet Keep Reading
TRAVEL BLOGGERS GIVE BACK: Sea Shepherd Conservation Society Fights For Marine Life
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society Fights For Marine Life One of the biggest environmentally focused initiatives we here at Green Global Travel believe in is the fight to end poaching. Keep Reading
Amazing Animal Facts: A-to-Z
ARMADILLO- Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always all the same sex. BULL- Bulls are colorblind, and therefore will usually charge at a matador's waving cape no matter what color Keep Reading
Becoming A Professional Writer: How I Did It (& You Can, Too)
HOW DO YOU BECOME A WRITER? The one question people ask me more than any other is, How did you become a writer? This is the somewhat long, but very detailed answer– a revealing look at the journey Keep Reading
Our Travels From A-Z
Our Travels From A-Z Remember MySpace? One of my favorite things about the site was the getting-to-know-you surveys people used to fill out. I haven’t logged onto MySpace in years, but Keep Reading
How I Fell In Love With Travel (& Got Blessed By The Pope)
I've had a weird, wild rollercoaster ride of a life. My career has certainly brought its fair share of highs and lows along the way, but the insanity started long before I ever became a Keep Reading
Heifer International Works To End Global Hunger Sustainably
When I was 19, I was homeless for 3 months. The "Why?" (a few bad choices made at a very troubled juncture in my life) isn't as important as the "What?" I slept wherever I could– on the floor of a Keep Reading
