In early June, we took a week-long trip to Yorkshire, England. We were attending a LAM conference in Leeds and decided to extend our visit to explore some of North Yorkshire’s prettier landscape. After seeing pictures of rolling green hills and reading about walking through sheep pastures to see waterfalls, we knew we wanted to […]
Planning a world trip itinerary
So you’ve decided you want to quit your job and travel the world. But thinking about where to go and when and for how long is completely overwhelming. Planning a world trip itinerary can indeed be daunting. It’s easy to get completely confused and overloaded by the vast number of choices you have. But with […]
Five wheelchair accessible things to do in Tenerife
We’re excited to introduce a new series of guest posts all about accessible travel. We’re featuring people with different backgrounds all around the world who love traveling in spite of what others may see as limitations. First up is Alex, the blogger behind The Life Quadriplegic. Alex was disabled in a car crash at the […]
Our complete around the world itinerary
We’re writing this two years since we left our apartment in Brooklyn, NY to embark on a year-long trip around the world. We honestly can’t believe it was that long ago. We wrote the first draft of this post of our complete around the world itinerary from memory without referring to any of our (copious) […]
Reflecting on milestones
June 17 is a pretty big day. Eight years ago today, I learned a very long word. Lymphangioleiomyomatosis. That word would answer questions like why I was struggling to breathe walking a flight of subway stairs or at my normal New Yorker pace. It was the scariest word I’d ever heard (its length didn’t help). […]
2018 Worldwide LAM Awareness Month
June is Worldwide LAM Awareness Month (WWLAM). Lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM) is a rare, incurable lung disease. Sarah was diagnosed with LAM in 2010. Since then, we’ve connected with many other women with LAM around the world. In honor of WWLAM 2018, we’re excited to share some of their stories and give you a glimpse into what […]
Traveling with LAM
I mention it often here – I have a fatal, incurable lung disease called lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM). Traveling has helped me and Justin cope with having this disease and the uncertainty it brings. While we try to build tips about traveling with a chronic illness and accessibility information about destinations into our posts, I haven’t actually […]
Working full-time with LAM
I found out about my LAM just one year after graduating from university with a degree in architecture, one year after having moved to a home 900 km from my place of origin. A year before my diagnosis, I left home with the dream of becoming a professional. I was in the best stage of […]
Being an athlete with LAM
It took crossing the finish line of my first marathon for me to consider myself an athlete. Although I enjoyed athletic activities throughout my life – softball, volleyball, track and field, swimming, hiking, skiing – it wasn’t until I took up running as an adult that I identified as an athlete. I became increasingly interested […]
Exercising with LAM
A couple years after my LAM diagnosis, I decided to take an outdoors fitness bootcamp class. I had lung surgery a year prior and was still nervous about upper body conditioning, not to mention struggling with shortness of breath. So I talked briefly about LAM with the instructor who assured me that she would be […]