Sometimes the longest journey is a weekly 1½ hour road trip from La Crosse, Wis. to Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., to find out if the reason your breast is bleeding is cancer, or not. After a summer of making that road trip, thankfully, for me, it is not. The journey is not yet over. … More The Longest Journey: Reflections on a Cancer Scare
Every once in a while an idea comes along that is so brilliant that it goes viral – without a marketing team, without an advertising budget, without an exclusive club of ambassadors or a guerrilla PR plan. It goes viral just because it’s a great idea, a pure, unadulterated stroke of genius. That is the … More Beer By Bike Brigade: Wisconsin Rocks Series
The long, straight stretch of road through South Dakota is peppered with little treasures that grant the weary driver respite from the dotted center line. Among them are Badlands National Park, which offers a seemingly impossible rugged horizon. Perhaps its beauty is magnified by the fact that travelers enjoy relative nothingness in either direction on … More Mini Vacay: South Dakota’s Badlands National Park
As a long-time Wisconsinite, there is a deep pleasure to be gleaned from introducing the uninitiated to the cheesehead staple: the humble cheese curd. It is my belief that besides butter, cheese curds offer the fastest and most pleasant route to angioplasty. Under their influence, you will roll over, like a dog dreaming deeply of … More The Curd of Truth – Wisconsin Rocks Series
Those who read this blog regularly know there is a humble, rustic cabin in the woods of Northern Minnesota that is very special to me. Though it doesn’t belong to me, but to my parents, I consider it my own personal Walden. Now, due to a legal disagreement over the separation of the property with … More Goodbye, Walden: Fifty Lakes, Minnesota
In travel, even the simplest of differences can dramatically shift our perspective. For a group of professionals who traveled from Tanzania to Wisconsin this spring, that simple difference was rooted in a smile. World Services of La Crosse recently hosted the delegation from Africa with the goal of improving the quality of nursing and nursing … More What’s in a Smile? Cultural Differences Boil Down to the Simplest of Surprises
A video dedicated to all the women who want to travel the world, and can’t wait for someone else to be ready. Let’s roll! … More A Declaration of Travel Independence {VIDEO}
Flip flops take a rest from their exhausting duties in a pool of sunshine on the leeward side of Maui. Photo by Charish Badzinski. ___________________ Join our community of travelers and enjoy exclusive content by liking us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/RollerbagGoddess Charish Badzinski is an explorer, food-lover and award-winning travel and food writer. When she isn’t … More Let Me See That Thong!
____________________ Join our community of travelers and enjoy exclusive content by liking us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/RollerbagGoddess Charish Badzinski is an explorer, food-lover and award-winning travel and food writer. When she isn’t working to build her blog: Rollerbag Goddess Rolls the World, she applies her worldview to her small business, providing strategic communications, media relations and … More We’re Open: Random Travel Photo
View from a tuk tuk in Thailand. Photo by Charish Badzinski.
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