My Fling at the Fairmont: Conde Nast Traveler: Women Who Travel Podcast
Thank you to Conde Nast Traveler Women Who Travel Podcast! I loved sharing my Fling at the Fairmont for your Valentine’s Dispatch!
Swimming for Grace
by Vicki Bunke Standing along the shore of the Sea of Galilee, I found it fitting to learn that it is the lowest freshwater lake in the world. I had recently experienced the lowest point in my life. Eight months earlier, my 14-year-old daughter Grace died after living with osteosarcoma or bone cancer for four … Continued
Teen Vogue: How a Swimming Lesson From Olympian Markus Rogan Changed My Life
Thank you Teen Vogue for publishing my article: “How a Swimming Lesson From Olympian Markus Rogan Changed My Life“ Brighter Sides is a series reflecting on the resilience, community and hope that lit up a very dark year. In this op-ed, Lisa Niver explains how a swimming lesson from Olympian Markus Rogan changed her life outlook. … Continued
Good-bye 2020: We Said Go Travel News Dec 2020
Dec News 2020 with We Said Go Travel: As the ten years of 2020 begins to end, this quote from the movie, The Martian, seems very apt: “At some point, everything’s gonna go south on you… everything’s going to go south and you’re going to say, this is it. This is how I end. Now you … Continued
India: Sunrise at the Ganges
The smoke from the funeral pyres danced in the rising sun, cascading downstream with the river and rising above the morning bathers. The smell of burning wood and incense hung in the air, stagnant, as the sun peeked over the horizon and reflected off the rippling currents. Crows flocked at the piles of ash and … Continued
Lithuania: My Perfect, Dirty Cow Pond
It had been a week since had I slept in a bed or taken a shower. Maybe more. I couldn’t remember. At five in the morning I found sleep elusive, so sat to watch a chicken in the rain. As I toyed with the idea of leaving the barn I had been trying to sleep … Continued