How âGriefcationsâ Helped Me Heal from Loss and How Travel Could Help You Too
âTo travel is to take a journey into yourself.â ~Danny Kaye
The brochure read, âMermaid tail, optional.â What forty-something mom doesnât have a shimmering fish tail tucked in her closet for just the right occasion? Not me. I live in Minnesota. Iâd borrow one when I got there.
I took a flight from Minneapolis to Panama City, and then a water taxi to a backpackersâ resort. Not the kind with frozen cocktails and bad DJs. The next thing I knew, I was on a sailboat, swinging from an aerial circus hoop suspended over the sparkling Caribbean Sea, dressed as a …