Let's End the Myth That Women of Color Don't Travel

Of course, women travel. In droves, actually. Despite lingering stereotypes that cast going off the beaten path as a guy thing, the “average adventure traveler is not a 28-year-old male, but a 47-year-old woman.” A British woman such as Freya Stark, 1893-1993, who traveled her entire life, married for the first time at 54, and was the first Westerner to travel into parts of western Iran.