SlowTravel

Flying into Madrid from South America, resting a couple days, then looking to base somewhere in Spain for May. Budget is around €500 for a private room on Airbnb (shared kitchen/bathroom is fine). After that I’d try to arrange something direct with an owner. What I’m looking...

Lately I’ve been thinking about how much travel content is just the same few spots shot from slightly different angles. Santorini sunsets, Bali rice terraces, that infinity pool in Singapore. And I realized I have zero desire to travel somewhere just because it photographs well....

For years I dreamed of crossing the Atlantic by freighter. Life got in the way, and now that I’m widowed, I finally want to do it. From what I can tell, freighter travel basically died after COVID, so I’ve been looking at repositioning cruises as the next closest thing. I’ve...

I’ve started to see a pattern where a lot of nomads just rotate through the same cities Lisbon, Bali, Chiang Mai, Medellín, Mexico City. All great places, but they’re also super English-friendly and built around Western conveniences. Makes me wonder if part of the nomad...

Kinda embarrassing, but I was scrolling through old photos and realized I have almost zero real memories from like half the places I’ve been. Prague, Budapest, Amsterdam, Barcelona… I know I went, I have the pics, but I couldn’t tell you one thing that actually stuck. I was just...

Went to the Netherlands for conferences thinking I’d only be there a week. Ended up staying a full month. After two weeks I’d done all the usual Amsterdam stuff and day trips, wasn’t sure what else to do. Then I met a local family outside the city who invited me to their farm....

Last summer I set out for a small-town road trip, avoiding interstates and big cities, and it turned out to be one of my favorite travel experiences. I wandered through places like Yellow Springs (OH), Winona Lake (IN), and even made it down parts of the Blue Ridge Parkway. Each...