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A favorite activity of hers was to walk her city for miles a day, and then wind down with boatloads of black tea and honey. But she did not limit her travels to walking in her city.
In 2001, Maryam Sharron traveled to Barcelona, Spain while working with Rotary International. In addition to her work duties, she always carved out time to explore the surrounding sites, hike, and tour for fun. Starting in 2002, she lived and worked overseas in Bukhara and Tashkent Uzbekistan (Central Asia) for 15 months as a U.S Peace Corps volunteer. While there, she taught English as a foreign language and African American and Native American history, and traveled to Boysun in the southeast where she conducted research on the Alpamysh dastan.
In 2007, Maryam Sharron’s travels took her to Cairo, Egypt (Kemet) after being awarded a Ralph J. Bunche Arabic Language Summer Grant to study the Arabic language. She then traveled further south to Aswan on invite as a Member of the Organizing Committee of the ASCAC 24th Annual Ancient Kemetic (Egyptian) Studies Conference.
Always the adventuress, as she regularly termed herself, Maryam Sharron ventured independently to Mexico City in 2015 where she lived for several months and used her time for personal reflection, meditation, prayer, and exploring religious sites of great importance to her.
Prior to these years of exploration, her very first travels were when her parents took the family on educational road trips, and later, accompanying her siblings and friends to Europe, Canada and on long road jaunts across the Eastern United States to African and Indigenous American historical sites.