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Fat Positive Travel Tips For A Post-Covid World
Guest Posts, Resource Guides, Travel Darliene Howell Guest Posts, Resource Guides, Travel Darliene Howell

Fat Positive Travel Tips For A Post-Covid World

As a digital nomad, fat activist, solo female traveler, and the founder of Fat Girls Traveling I’ve learned a few things about traveling in a bigger body. We face so many barriers in our everyday lives that traveling outside of our comfort zone can seem inaccessible to us. The travel industry doesn’t consider fat bodies so we’ve had to become detectives when creating size-inclusive itineraries. I’ve created a cheat sheet of sorts to get you through the initial stress of traveling while fat, with specific tips for traveling during a global pandemic.

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