School
University Of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Expertise
New England, Historic Destinations, Ireland
- Johanna has lived all over New England in places known for tourism and historical significance, including Stowe, Vermont, New Bedford, Massachusetts, and Salem, Massachusetts.
- She left her desk job to be a flight attendant in 2015, and has been honing her travel skills ever since.
- She lived in Dublin, Ireland and has toured many parts of the country.
Experience
Johanna has worked as a professional writer for over ten years, and her first freelance piece was published on Cosmopolitan.com in 2014. She served as the co-developer and primary project writer for MOGUL's educational and lifestyle courses in 2015, which featured in Entrepreneur Magazine alongside Harvard Business School, and Harvard and MIT's EdX. She's also published headline articles with HuffPost and HuffPost Women, all while traveling the world as a flight attendant. In her spare time, you can find her working on her next YA fiction manuscript.
Education
Johanna has a bachelor's degree in Marketing from the Charlton College of Business at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.
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Travel Guides
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Cape Cod might be the most popular Massachusetts beach destination, but this oceanfront city north of Boston boasts a fascinating history, great food, and more.
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Travel Guides
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Parents who travel often know that bringing car seats and strollers can mean bigger headaches at TSA, so it helps to know how to navigate that situation.
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Travel Guides
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If you don't want jet lag ruining your trip to a faraway place, use these tips from an experienced flight attendant to prepare your body for a new time zone.
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Travel Guides
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This charming coastal town in Massachusetts is brimming with history and famous sites, and is the birthplace of the U.S. Navy.
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Travel Guides
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Did you know that airline pilots tend to avoid eating the same meal on a flight? And the reason why might make you reconsider eating airline food.
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Travel Guides
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On long flights, your flight attendant might not be eating the same in-flight meal that you are -- here's what they bring to eat while on board.
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Travel Guides
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There’s a right time and a wrong time to chat with a flight attendant - while they’re in their jump seats, it’s best to hold off on the talk. Here’s why.
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Travel Guides
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Nobody enjoys using the bathroom on an airplane. But there is one thing about airplane bathrooms that flight attendants know and you probably don't.
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Travel Guides
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Nobody likes to be stuck inside a stinky airplane, and yet, according to science, there’s very little you can do to avoid that pressing urge to break wind.
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Destinations
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Delaware might be a small state, but that doesn't mean that it isn't worth a visit. This town, in particular, has quite a lot for visitors to explore.
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