Getting Started with International Travel

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

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

My first solo trip was an act of desperation. I’d traveled with friends to varying degrees of success. I traveled with a love interest that turned out to be a nightmare. Ultimately I realized what I needed was time with the one person who could lovingly challenge my choices, lift me up and give me

Imagine you finally saved up enough money and vacation time to take your dream trip to Bali. Completely excited to see The Gates of Heaven you take that early morning tour then find yourself standing in line for two hours just to take a selfie. You walk away tired, disappointed, and saying: “Was it worth

There are few things more terrifying than landing in a new country and having no idea how you are getting from the airport to the place you are staying. The language barrier, the signage all make it really easy for you to make a poor and costly decision. You spent all of this time planning

I’ll be the first to admit… I am a spoiled traveler. I enjoy upgraded seats on flights, grabbing cocktails in the airport lounge and having breakfast included with my stay. When I learned I could get all of this just by having the right travel reward credit card, I was all in. You’ll be hard

“The car has a manual transmission. Are you ok with that?” He asked. What he didn’t know was my first car was a manual transmission and I bought that before I knew how to drive one. I smiled confidently and enthusiastically said yes. “And we drive on the left here in South Africa” he added.