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Hometown

New Jersey

Location now

Atlanta

Work published

Long Story Short and Burst, e-zines. I also have a website where I write about a wide variety of topics, including travel. My website is:

mariacristina.wordpress.com

Travel philosophy

Be open to the moment.

Craziest place

Haiti. I was only 19, and I wasn't prepared for the poverty I encountered there.

Bizarre experience

Running to keep up with an eighty-year-old woman in the north of Spain, who climbed over stone walls to lead me to a potato patch. I learned how to uproot potatoes, pick cabbage, cook slop for the pigs, milk cows, and other farm chores.

Advice

Don't over plan your trip. Allow the place to sink in before moving on. Don't be worried about seeing everything, because then you end up seeing nothing. Make friends.

Dream destination

I would love to drive from my home in Georgia down the Pan American Highway, ending up in La Tierra del Fuego. If my husband and two teenage sons came with me, I'd be in heaven.

Traveled before

Spain, many times, all over.

Paris, Stockholm, San José, Costa Rica, Mexico, several different cities.

Going next

I'm going to Sonoma, California to attend a conference on dreams.