Author: strangersabroad
Embrace Your Fate: How to Make the Challenging Decision if a Long Distance Relationship is Right for You
Spoiler: It’s gut wrenching Wow what a Time it has been. My life is completely different at the beginning of 2025 than at the end of 2023 when I last posted. In 2023, I completely threw myself into my special series A Race Around the World: Based on the True Story of Nellie Bly and…
New Podcast Season Announcement
Hello Strangers. It’s been a wild few years. Much has changed since my last season. We went in and out of lockdown. For almost two years, the closest we got to travel was on a screen or a book on our couches. Not being able to move freely was an extremely unsettling and startling surprise…
Road Trip Series Part 2: Travel Predictions for 2021 and Hospitality Life
After a year of stillness and circling our apartments, there are a number of big travel predictions happening now that the COVID19 virus is slowing. My big travel prediction for 2021 is that road trips will be the biggest trend. Traveling internationally is still touch and go. There are many places that are still surging…
The Ultimate Romantic Weekend in Santa Fe
My partner, Sam, and I are sitting on a terrace outside of the North 35 degrees cafe overlooking the plaza in Santa Fe. I take in the scenery: the two-story adobe houses and old western architecture, the naked deciduous trees, and the faint smell of sage burning in the air. It is so serene here.…
Road Trip Series Part 1: The Desert Absolute
Hello strangers! It has been one hell of a year. As we all know, 2020 was GREAT for travel if that means you binged ever episode of Planet Earth three times and the sound of David Attenborough’s voice now makes you cry. However, I did manage to sneak out of my apartment ( masked up…
Why You Should Go on a Road Trip this Hot Vaxx Summer
Why plan a road trip? Remember when you could book a last minute trip to Costa Rica just cuz? Ahhh the good old days when we could fly at the whim of our desires ( and flexibility on our credit cards), and we didn’t have to worry if the plane was over crowded or if…
The Best Podcasts to Binge while Going on a Road Trip
“Download on stitcher, iTunes, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts…” The rolling credits of some podcast cuts out abruptly as I instinctively pushed play for the next episode. For the last six hours, my hands have been doing three things: selecting podcasts, scrolling through podcasts, and feeding snacks to Sam. Sam is not…
Stage 16: Home
Stage 16: Home The Episode Listen here The more we travel, the more we find that home becomes more illusive. Home is a place we crave in our most harrowing moments and forget in the spontaneous bliss. But, the farther we travel from it, the more foreign it seems. It slowly becomes but a dream…
Stage 15: Grown
Stage 15: Grown The Episode Home is hopefully a wonderful place to grow. But it can keep us stagnant. Never challenge us for bigger things in life. Travel has ways of challenging us and forcing us to grow in ways we couldn’t have anticipated. We see what we are good at and where we can…
Stage 14: Inspired
Stage 14: Inspired The Episode When we travel, many of us come back with more photos on our phones and souvenirs in our bags. We may feel a deeper shift within us. We have seen things that we cannot unsee. Slums Environmental damage The remains of war Or sometimes it’s what we don’t see. Clean…