The world reopened, borders dropped requirements, flights resumed and yet travel feels heavier. Not because we’ve forgotten how to travel, but because the world (and we) have changed. The version of travel people learned in their twenties no longer fits the lives they have in their forties, fifties, and beyond. The challenges with looking through hundreds […]
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Here’s an uncomfortable truth: You can’t travel with everyone. I would wager a bet that there are very few people that intentionally started their international travel adventures going solo. The emotional side of us wants a travel partner.  It sounds reasonable. Travel feels safer, more enjoyable, more justified when it’s shared. But year after year,
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I don’t know about you but the idea of spending even one night uncomfortable in a hostel or backpacking across any country is no where near my bucket list. Even the thought of folding myself up in the back of an airplane for 8 or more hours is starting to slide down my list of
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There comes a moment when travel stops being about proving something and starts being about protecting something. Your time.Your energy.Your money.Your peace. For years, travel was measured the way ambition often is: by volume. How many cities. How many landmarks. How many early mornings and late nights you could stack together and still call it
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There is a quiet kind of regret that comes at the end of the year. You receive your Spotify recap then Netflix tells you what you watched all year and every other post on IG starts with “And with that the 2025 season comes to an end.” Then you start working on your yearly travel
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The most common phrase you will hear in December is “It’s hard to believe it’s the end of the year, already.” Yes, time flies when you are not being intentional about it. You start the year off strong and before you know it you are scrambling to use the rest of your vacation time or
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Repacking to go home on the last day of the trip can sometimes be traumatic. Not simply because the trip is coming to an end but for me it’s when I realize that 40% of what I packed never left the suitcase. Looking at the nail I broke as I fought for inches to get
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I was wandering around a very popular international destination recently. I had been there before so didn’t exactly feel like a tourist which opened my eyes to how ‘vanilla’ this place had actually become. The things you would expect to struggle with when you travel halfway around the world, seemed to have magically disappeared. Every
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I’ve heard people rave about the Algarve Region of Portugal for years. The sunshine, the beaches, the food all sounded so enticing. So after 4 visits to the other popular regions of the Portugal, I had to go see what the hype was all about. Here’s the honest, unfiltered truth about Portugal’s sunny southern coast
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I’ve traveled extensively over the course of the years. Checking off more than 60 countries and still barely scratching the surface of what’s out there. It’s hard to believe there are 195 countries around the world which means I have a long way to go before I even see half of what the world has
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