Thank you for checking out my first post on the NEW Pampers and Paklava! Look closely. Can you see me standing on my virtual ship, breaking a bottle of champagne over the bow, in honor of the ceremonial launch of my new website?

For nearly seven years, I was a blogger on Wanderlust and Lipstick, number 40 of top travel blogs in the world. I logged 665 posts during my stint as a Wanderblogger, alongside a community of amazingly talented women. And then the time came to bid adieu.

If you’ve followed me in the past, I’m thrilled to have you on board again! And if you’re a Pampers and Paklava newcomer, you’ll soon learn a few things about me, such as: I love photography, gardening, cooking and writing.

Travel ranks at the top of my “Things I’d like to do more of” list, but I don’t go on adventures as often as I might like because I’m Mama to a little girl who we adopted from an orphanage in Armenia when she was one-year-old. Of course raising a child is its own special kind of adventure and, along the way, I’ve learned…

It’s all about the journey,

Beth