Her love life was officially taking a back seat. Lindz, then 33, had traveled to New York City from her home in Edinburgh, Scotland to attend a writers’ conference.Īfter a spate of disappointing dates in Scotland, Lindz viewed the US conference as the start of a new chapter, focused exclusively on her career and the writing opportunities she hoped would come her way. “It was really interesting to uproot myself and go to a new continent entirely on my own, I was really looking forward to it, I saw this as a new adventure.” “I had never been to America before at all,” Lindz tells CNN Travel today.
Kennedy Airport, she felt an immediate jolt of excitement and anticipation.
When Lindz McLeod stepped off the airplane at John F.