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What is Dispatches all about?

Welcome to Breathedreamgo Dispatches. With this newsletter, I share “travel tales and other stories” that don’t make it to the blog.

Who am I? I’m a professional travel writer and blogger from Toronto, Canada, and I first started travelling in India in 2005 to recover from loss, grief, and depression.

I never wanted to be “merely a tourist,” I always wanted a more immersive experience of travel. And as a blogger and travel writer, I have always tried to learn as much as I can about India and the other destinations I visit, and show respect for the culture in my writing. These are important values to me.

I’ve thought about my responsibility as a travel writer a lot. I feel that sensitive travel stories, told with understanding and insight, and carefully curated tours that encourage visitors to experience local culture, can help humanize “other” cultures and bring the world together. They can make the world smaller, and the “other” seem less foreign and more familiar.

Dispatches is about these discoveries, my personal journeys, the people I’ve met, and the beauty and wonder of the world.

Thanks for taking this journey with me.

Love, Mariellen

Wearing modest clothes in Mumabi
Me and the Big B striking a pose in Bandra, Mumbai

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