Road Trips: Choosing the Long Way Through
Road Trips: Choosing the Long Way Through Road trips ask something of you before they give anything back. There is no illusion of effortlessness on the road. You feel every mile. You make every decision. When you travel by car, progress is earned minute by minute—through attention, patience, wrong turns, fatigue, weather, and the quiet […]
Cruises: Movement Without Urgency
Cruises move you forward without asking for effort. In that ease, time loosens, urgency fades, and space opens for reflection. This piece explores the relief of being carried—and the subtle distance that comfort can create when movement no longer requires intention.
The People You Don’t Plan For
The places we remember most clearly are often tied to people we never expected to meet. Brief conversations, shared silences, and unplanned connections have a way of shaping a journey long after the route has changed. This entry explores how the road introduces us to others—and to parts of ourselves we don’t encounter at home.
What Stayed Longer Than the Trip
Some parts of travel don’t leave when you do. They follow quietly—reshaping how you notice time, how you listen, how you move through familiar places once you’re home again. This reflection isn’t about where I went, but about what lingered: small shifts in perspective, the weight of silence, and the subtle ways a place continues to travel with you long after the bags are unpacked.
The Space Between What Was Planned
Some of the most meaningful parts of travel happen in the spaces that aren’t planned for. The pauses between destinations. The hours with nowhere to be. The moments where nothing is happening—until something does. This piece reflects on the value of that in-between space, where attention softens, expectations fall away, and experience has room to arrive on its own terms.
Life Is in the Moments
Some of the most meaningful parts of travel don’t happen when plans go right. They happen in the pauses—when schedules loosen, expectations fall away, and you allow yourself to be fully present. This is a reflection on learning to leave space for awe, silence, and the moments that only arrive when you stop trying to control the journey.
