My passport sat blank in a drawer for two years after I got it — I kept saying “soon” until a friend called me out at dinner. We booked flights that night. I barely slept. That impulsive decision landed me on a slow boat drifting through Bordeaux and Burgundy, a glass of something extraordinary in … Read more
My boss handed me a bonus check and said “invest it wisely.” I invested it in a round-trip ticket and two weeks somewhere I’d been dreaming about since a geography class in eighth grade — the French Riviera, that sun-drenched stretch of coastline I’d stared at in a textbook map, tracing my finger from Menton … Read more
Three weeks after my relationship ended, I did the only thing that made sense: I booked a solo trip somewhere I’d always wanted to go but had been waiting for the “right time” to visit together. Provence had lived on that list for years — the lavender fields, the crumbling hilltop villages, the markets piled … Read more
