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Travel, sustainability & life between two cultures

A travel blog about food, sustainability & life between two cultures.

Turquoise waters and a blue sky above a chain of islands in Thailand. ©KettiWilhelm2019

Welcome to a different kind of travel blog!

Tilted Map is a different perspective on something familiar. A travel & food blog that’s just as much about culture & sustainability. See my About Page for more!

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Two bunches of broccoli, held up by this recipe’s author, with trees and mountains in the background – ready to make authentic Italian Pasta with Broccoli. ©KettiWilhelm2021

Pasta With Broccoli: A Recipe Stolen from My Italian In-Laws

Ketti
January 16, 2021

This is one of my favorite Italian family recipes – Pasta with Broccoli. It’s healthy, easy, meat-free, and can be vegan or vegetarian if you want it…

Continue Reading Pasta With Broccoli: A Recipe Stolen from My Italian In-Laws

How Hard Is It to Go to Hawaii Right Now? (And Should You?)

Ketti
December 4, 2020

This is a timeline of my experience traveling to Hawaii from the mainland US in December, 2020, plus current COVID-19 restrictions for Hawaii, the pre-travel test I took…

Continue Reading How Hard Is It to Go to Hawaii Right Now? (And Should You?)

Plastic-free toiletry brands reviewed, lined up on a wooden table: Bite toothpaste bits and bamboo toothbrush, byHumankind refillable deodorant, floss and plastic-free hand sanitizer, LastObject (LastSwab, LastRound and LastTissue), HiBAR zero-waste shampoo, the Ultimate Body Bar, and The Ordinary serums in glass packaging. ©KettiWilhelm2020

Plastic-Free Toiletries: My Travel-Friendly, Less-Waste Routine

Ketti
November 17, 2020

My thoroughly tested less-waste travel routine: Plastic-free toiletries that are mostly gender-neutral and feel like a treat to use – not a sustainability obligation. I actually prefer these…

Continue Reading Plastic-Free Toiletries: My Travel-Friendly, Less-Waste Routine

A Norwegian cruise ship in port in Juneau, Alaska. Cruise ships have many sustainability problems, including causing air pollution and water pollution. ©KettiWilhelm2020

What Makes Cruising THAT Bad for the Environment?

Ketti
October 28, 2020

An overview – in plain English – of the biggest sustainability problems with cruise ships, and some solutions for how to fix them. (From interviews with experts!) Among…

Continue Reading What Makes Cruising THAT Bad for the Environment?

LastObject's two versions of their reusable Q-Tip (basic, in pink, and beauty, in purple) shown with EarthSider's knock-off/ counterfeit version of the product (in gray) for this review. ©KettiWilhelm2020

LastSwab vs EarthSider Review [How to Avoid Zero-Waste Greenwashing]

Ketti
October 14, 2020

What’s your biggest pet peeve? If you know me, you probably know that I can’t stand anything fake. Things, people or companies that claim to be something they’re…

Continue Reading LastSwab vs EarthSider Review [How to Avoid Zero-Waste Greenwashing]

A blue and gold sunset over Caribbean Sea – filled with sailboats – in Guadeloupe. Taken at the end of long work day an international travel guide. ©KettiWilhelm2020

How Do You Actually Move Abroad? (11 Ideas & Personal Experience)

Ketti
October 1, 2020

A few weeks ago, I got a text from an American friend asking me one simple question: How can I move abroad? Understandable. Especially this year. So I…

Continue Reading How Do You Actually Move Abroad? (11 Ideas & Personal Experience)

Update: Why I Moved Home to the Mountains & What’s Next

Ketti
August 31, 2020

Where I am now (in Montana!), why I’ve left Chicago, and why you’re suddenly seeing posts about plastic-free products on this blog. Almost every year around the end…

Continue Reading Update: Why I Moved Home to the Mountains & What’s Next

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Van Part 7 - Flooring! Damn, it's hard to make thi Van Part 7 - Flooring! Damn, it's hard to make this sexy. 😂  As you can tell from the video, it was a pretty slow, tedious, precision type of job. (Which, frankly, my nerd heart loves. ❤)  But that doesn’t explain why I’m acting like an insane person who hasn’t slept. It’s not drugs. It was the Saturday after election day, and I was feeling all those hope-y, change-y feelings. Anyone else remember that?  I still believe in it. The best is yet to come. And someday I’ll be able to get a haircut, too. 💇 ✌
Continuing the van building distraction: Part 6, T Continuing the van building distraction: Part 6, The Wood Ceiling! 🌲  Made from leftover Blue Pine boards piled in my dad's shop, stained by yours truly, and painstakingly wedged into place on an uneven, curved ceiling.  Definitely a square peg / round hole kind of job, but it makes this old Chevy feel like a cabin in the woods! 💚
My mind has been far away from our van project lat My mind has been far away from our van project lately, so I'm a few steps behind in sharing this story. But here we go – Part 5: climbing around on top of a car like a '50s pin-up model, but with more '90s grunge vibes. 🔧 💃  🎬 Video of course by @theaviaoexperience
You may have noticed my stories got a little vulga You may have noticed my stories got a little vulgar and angry and political yesterday. Well, expressing how I feel about what happened in my country yesterday required a lot of fucks.  But first, congratulations to @raphaelwarnock and @jonossoff , who both broke barriers yesterday!  As for the rest of it, well…  This might seem like a break from my usual travel posts, but it’s not. Travel IS political, and I write about it as such. Travel writers and bloggers SHOULD ABSOLUTELY talk about what’s really happening in a place – politics and oppression included.  We’re quick to point out when other countries are unsafe to visit, but what about our own? 
Of all the wealthy democracies I’ve visited and lived in, I've never seen a place with such  terrifying hypocrisy as the United States. And I’m on the easy side of it – I’m white!!  My favorite political science professor in college said, “The only defining marker of a stable democracy is the peaceful transition of power.”  Yesterday, the only “stable” thing I saw was the predictable impunity for white thugs and domestic terrorists who stormed Congress like out-of-control children – because they lost an election. And because they knew they could get away with it. No person of color would ever imagine they could do that in this country.  That is the REALITY OF AMERICA TODAY. And the world is watching.  How could ANYONE abroad see a country where anyone can have a gun, and any hostile, armed (white) person with a grudge can walk into the highest offices of government without being stopped, and think: “That sounds like a nice place for a vacation”?  This is the kind of impunity and lawlessness that makes the US State Department warn us not to visit other countries.  So tell me, if you’re thinking of visiting the USA as a traveler, how safe does it seem right now???  📸 : Photo is from a Trump protest in Chicago back in 2019. The sentiment is what we still have to live up to.
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My mantra for the new year. ☝️ I’m looking f My mantra for the new year. ☝️ I’m looking forward to lots more change, new gigs, moving, exploring, learning and, just like last year, adapting to and learning to do things I never thought I could. (Just hopefully more fun things. 🏄‍♀️ 🧳)  Whatever you’ve got in mind, here's to 2021!
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