Breana Johnson

Breana Johnson is an Arizona native and avid traveler. When she’s not exploring the Southwest’s offbeat destinations, you can find her brushing up on American Sign Language, crafting award-winning novels, or blogging at BreanaJohnsonWrites.com. Snag her latest novelette for free when you sign up for Breana’s newsletter.
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Articles by Breana Johnson
The route between Los Angeles and Las Vegas may be a heavily traveled highway, but it’s still a long strip of road through the desert of the American Southwest.
On your next trip, bring natural history to life with a dinosaur encounter! The U.S. offers many attractions where you can view dinosaur fossils—or even participate in a dino dig.
There are only two schools exclusively for the Deaf in Burundi (the other, also founded by my husband’s family, is five hours away). Without the chance to go to school and learn sign language, these kids would never have the chance to learn any language at all, a situation that direly impacts Deaf individuals in a country that struggles with poverty.
“Are you sure this is the right way?” My husband, Ben, stopped me and took a critical look at the map.
Becoming an expat in Sint Maarten was hard, with culture shock taking the wind out of my sails for days at a time at the beginning. It







