
The Chaotic Compass: (Or: How We Accidentally Became Professional Travel Improvisers) Prologue: The Journey Begins Greetings, brave souls of wanderlust! Strap in and hold onto your fanny packs, because what started as a carefully planned Southeast Asian adventure quickly devolved into the kind of beautiful chaos you’d expect from a toddler let loose in a…

Let’s be honest, a week in Provence conjures images so aggressively charming, they practically come with their own Instagram filter. Rolling hills, villages that look suspiciously like movie sets, and enough rosé to float a small armada – the travel influencer fantasy. While my life’s soundtrack remains stubbornly free of chill lo-fi beats (a work…

Our Spanish adventure began with a flight into Madrid, where we rented a car and, despite our jet lag, immediately set off northward like sleep-deprived conquistadors on a mission! The goal? Conquer that mysterious middle section of Northern Spain that had been taunting us on the map between our previous excursions to Galicia and Pays…