Tales from a Beautifully Bizarre World
Sober reflections on travel, life, and the chaos in between.
Welcome to The Sober Globetrotter blog—where the detours are the destination, and sobriety isn’t a limitation, it’s the lens. This blog is part journal, part travel guide, part spiritual side quest—with a few snacks and catastrophes along the way.
It’s about what I learn when I get lost, what I feel when I’m far from home, and all the stupid, uncomfortable growth that happens when I fully commit to the journey. Expect travel tips, personal truths, weird moments, and the occasional unsolicited life lesson.
I’m Ginny—former chef, current globetrotter, and semi-professional overthinker—inviting you to wander with me through the strange, the beautiful, and the brutally honest.
We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next, to find ourselves.
Pico Iyer
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The meal I had at Desfrutar in 2021 is, and may always be, the best meal I’ve ever had in my life.
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Not to sugar coat it or anything, but getting sober is a living nightmare. I mean, the end result can be happiness and freedom and joy beyond your wildest dreams, but the process? It fucking sucks. As I’ve heard a million times, “alcohol wasn’t the problem, it was the solution.” That might sound nuts to someone who hasn’t walked this…
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Fine dining restaurants don’t have to be stuffy – the first of a four part series looks at Travail Kitchen & Amusements in Minneapolis