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There’s a reason for airline rules.
As a former flight attendant, I have seen many travelers take offense to a flight attendant’s request to follow an...
Traveling with pets.
For travelers with pets, considerations must be made when making travel plans. For many, pets are a part of the...
How Covid testing impacts your travel budget?
Covid testing and travel have almost become synonymous. If you travel internationally, a negative Covid test is...
Traveling to Thailand-The Thailand Pass
COVID has created many changes in traveling, and I’m happy that many countries have started to open their borders to...
COVID-19 travel restrictions.
Recently a friend traveled from Washington DC to Egypt. She discussed with me the harrowing experience of trying to...
Singapore COVID-19 rules and restrictions
I decided to return to Singapore to be with my husband, and I knew there would be COVID restrictions. However, many...
Travel and the coronavirus-Omicron
We’ve spent most of 2020 and 2021 living with COVID and its impact on travel. I previously wrote a dated blog post...
Long-haul flights
If there’s anything that provides an authentic travel experience, it’s long-haul flights. As a flight attendant, I...
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Hi, I’m Donna
As a woman of color, I navigate the world of travel with a distinct lens.
I retired in 2013 after 23 years as an international flight attendant while living and raising two children in Singapore. I became an empty nester in 2018 when my son graduated college, and my daughter started college. I moved back to Singapore in 2018, but as it is with ex-pats, most of my ex-pat friends had transitioned.
As an empty nester, I didn’t have much in common with the new ex-pat mothers I met. However, whenever I met new people, just as always, conversations evolved around travel once they realized I was a former flight attendant. People often ask me questions and opinions about travel, so in 2020, I decided to blog about it.
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