If you've never had 47 browser tabs open at 1am comparing flights hotels hostels Airbnbs and Reddit threads from 2019 about whether a neighborhood is safe then you've never truly planned a trip.

The research phase is unhinged.

You start with one destination.

Maybe two.

Then someone mentions a...

The audacity of me standing in my room the night before a trip saying out loud to no one that this time will be different.

I'll pack light this time.

I say this while holding three backup outfits for situations that will never happen.

What if there's a fancy dinner.

What if it's colder than e...

You know that feeling when you're physically at your desk but mentally you're on a beach in Portugal wondering what went wrong with your life choices.

That's the feeling.

Your entire For You page is travel content.

Beaches.

Mountains.

People quitting their jobs to backpack Asia.

That one ac...

Before the mortgage and the kids and the we should really save this year conversations.

Before life gets complicated in all the ways life gets complicated.

Take these trips.

A road trip with no fixed destination.

Just a car and a direction and zero pressure to be anywhere specific.

You'll fi...

Group trips are friendship audits and honestly nobody is ready to have that conversation.

Seven days in a foreign country with the same people reveals more than seven years of casual friendship ever could.

You're about to learn things about your friends you never wanted to know.

You'll discove...

Traveling with your best friend is a masterclass in patience love and I told you we should have turned left.

The good parts first.

You'll stay up until 3am on a hostel rooftop talking about life in ways you never do at home.

Something about being in a new place with no distractions and nowhere...

Over-planning killed more of my trips than bad weather ever did.

I used to have hour-by-hour itineraries.

Spreadsheets with color coded tabs.

Backup plans for backup plans.

Walking routes optimized for efficiency.

Restaurant reservations booked weeks in advance.

And then I'd get there and s...

You've been saying next year for three years now.

The trip you keep thinking about.

The place you've saved on Pinterest and Instagram and your phone background.

The destination that comes up every time someone asks where you want to go.

You know the one.

You're waiting for the right time.

W...

The way you pack says more about you as a person than any personality test ever could.

The Over-Packer.

You know who you are.

You bring a hairdryer to a beach hostel.

You pack three pairs of heels for a hiking trip because what if there's a nice dinner one night.

Your suitcase weighs 50 poun...

I have 23000 photos from my Europe trip in 2019.

I've looked at maybe 200 of them.

Probably less.

They sit in my camera roll taking up storage and I scroll past them every time because there's too many to even know where to start.

The ones I actually remember though.

The ones that hit differ...

Your zodiac sign already knows where you need to go next.

And honestly after researching this I'm convinced the stars are onto something.

Fire signs need adventure and intensity.

Aries should be chasing waterfalls in Iceland or hiking volcanos.

Leo needs somewhere they can be seen and Dubai d...

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