Sabrina Canfield

On a Travel Squire trip to Cape Town, South Africa, Sabrina Canfield had a memorable day where, first, she unexpectedly found herself at the top floor of a seemingly abandoned warehouse that later turned out to be Cape Town’s premier recording studio. Later that day the studio’s producer invited her out for a drink. She went, in jeans and a tee-shirt, and found herself at a VIP black tie party for Cape Town’s renowned Jazz Fest. “I mean everyone was at this party,” she told Travel Squire. “This young woman watched me a long time – my jeans, at this event! I felt almost rude, and they were taking photos of me because of who I was with. – The woman at last came over and asked if I was a dancer. “’No,’ I said. ‘I’m a writer from New Orleans.’ At the terrace table where I stood, a man in French cuffs with gold links had only just lit a cigar. He bolted from his stool the minute I opened my mouth, knocking over the table and drinks as he fled. “I realized you never say you’re a writer. Next time it will be, ‘Yes, thank you, I am a dancer.’ A dancer sounds much lovelier anyway.” When she’s not having travel adventures for The Squire, Canfield works as a news reporter in New Orleans and is at work on her third novel.