Author: Stephanie Griest

Stephanie Elizondo Griest has mingled with the Russian Mafia, polished Chinese propaganda, and belly danced with Cuban rumba queens. These adventures inspired her award-winning memoirs Around the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing, and Havana; Mexican Enough: My Life Between the Borderlines; and the best-selling guidebook 100 Places Every Woman Should Go. Visit her website at www.aroundthebloc.com.

 

 1) So tell us about yourself. Where are you from and how did you start traveling?

 I am from Corpus Christi, Texas (or, as I prefer to call it, Corpitos), but much of my adult life has been spent on the road. (My great-great Uncle Jake was a hobo who saw America with his legs dangling over the edge of a freight train, so wanderlust is encoded in my DNA!) My journey officially began in …

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