NATJA - North American Travel Journalists Association

Member

Teresa Williamson

950 Battery Street
Third Floor
San Francisco ca 94111 United States
650-712-9276
teresa@tangodiva.com

External Website

http://www.tangodiva.com

Biography

Teresa Rodriguez Williamson, AKA Tango Diva, was working for Richard Simmons when an Australian surfer caught her eye at the health club. Within months of this chance meeting with romance, she packed up her meager belongings and hopped on a plane to Australia—as a married woman. While things didn't work out with the man, she did fall head over heels with The Land Down Under... and traveling.

During her difficult separation, Teresa took to the friendly skies to find some solace and inner peace, and this time alone. She hit London, Paris, and New York on a whirlwind summer tour, but with no guidebook for the solo gal available, she had to overcome the treacherous travel travails all by herself.

Teresa returned to Australia following her big city tour. He new confidence from traveling shined and once back in Oz, she was signed by a modeling agent and then was asked to be a chaperone on the popular Aussie game show, "Blind Date." Her weekends were spent in tropical 5-star locales with winning game show contestants. It was during this stint that she garnered many of the travel secrets she yearns to share with women today.

In 1993 Teresa moved back to the United States and began working in advertising, but once again she longed for the excitement and rejuvenation of solo travel. Instead of waiting around for her friends' schedules to clear up so they could join her, she planned to go alone. Since then, Teresa has traveled most of the world by herself and considers her trips the most empowering and inspiring times in her life.

Now 34 years old, and based in San Francisco, Teresa continues to travel as often as utterly possible. She's compiled the best of her travel tips and secrets, plus a few surprises, for women who long to traverse the world over, in her book Tango Diva, Flying Solo. And on her web site www.tangodiva.com, women can find real-time answers to solo travel questions, as well as connect with other women who travel alone. She is also designing a line of travel products for the girl on the go.




Teresa's Top 15 All-Time Favorite Travel Moments:


• Dancing in the Samba Parade in Rio de Janeiro during Carnival in Brazil.
• Jubilee Christmas Eve at the Vatican, Italy.
• Afternoon tea at Lock Ness, Scotland.
• Riding horseback through the Queensland jungle while chasing butterflies.
• Running through lavender fields in Tasmania.
• Snorkeling in Fiji.
• Hiking the Aztec ruins in Teotihuacan, Mexico.
• Playing with dolphins in the Bahamas.
• Sitting in on an Irish Parliament session in Dublin.
• Flamenco dancing in Barcelona, Spain.
• Sipping champagne on a yacht in Greece.
• Shopping in Paris for the perfect pink stilettos.
• Riding a purebred Arabian horse past the great pyramids of Egypt.
• Watching the sun rise over Macchu Pichu, Peru.
• Flying (and landing!) solo out of John Wayne Airport in Orange County,
California.



























Credits

Marie Claire, November 2006, cover story: STOP THE PRESS, Style Insiders' New secret Haunts.

FLY SOLO: The 50 Best Places on Earth for a Girl to Travel Alone. (Penguin Feb 2007)

Links to Published Work