Getting Started with International Travel

Admit it, at some point you’ve had dreams of dancing the day away at Carnival in Rio or ringing in the New Year watching the fireworks over the Sydney Harbor bridge or Taipei 101. They are all iconic. It generally happens when you are scrolling the internet and some airline is offering an unbelievable deal […]

It happened gradually. My travel boundaries became less blurred. Logistical nonsense that wasted my time became a nonstarter. The mere idea of sitting in “gen pop” became an annoyance. And there’s no way I was waiting in line if there was an option to skip ahead, even if it cost me more money. I started

January has a way of sneaking up on you. The holidays disappear, the days stay short, the weather turns hostile, and suddenly you’re googling ‘how to get out of a funk?’ before noon. Ah yes, the winter blues is upon you. You’re caught in the never-ending loop: work, home, screens, repeat. But while most of

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

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,

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

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

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