Sydney, 2008

Never have I ever kept a personal blog. While I’ve made my living as a magazine editor and contributor, write fiction in every spare hour I can find, and have a trunk full of journals, I’ve lacked the drive to compel anyone to learn any more about me or my observations than they already do. But thanks to timing and true love, I have the amazing opportunity to move to Santiago, Chile in eight months and start the ultimate adventure with my fiancé. I reasoned that a blog was the best way to brief family and friends back home or off on their own adventures, so I have created this place holder for when I arrive, learn a new language, and see the world from another hemisphere’s point of view.

I’m also pursuing my MFA at Mills, trying to figure out how to write every day, with my eye out for a portal to an eight-day week. This semester, I’m enrolled in a women’s travel writing class and I’ve read too many fascinating, eye-opening accounts of people and places taken home to the page to want to wait to join them. I’ve stumbled upon a vast array of travel blogs by accomplished wanderlusting writers–I have posted links to many here and will turn to them for continued inspiration as I too reach for the curves of this vast world we all aim to explore. After all, there is so much to note right here at Ocean Beach, San Francisco, California.

As I recall they say in Australia, we’ll see how we go.