Tag: planner

I found a fare alert on a Thursday afternoon that made absolutely no sense to ignore. By Friday morning I had a ticket and no real plan — which turned out to be the best way to approach the whole thing. Thailand has a way of rewarding that kind of…

I quit my career in finance to become a landscape photographer, and before I started that new chapter, I gave myself one month: no meetings, no performance reviews, no deliverables — just go somewhere that would remind me why I made the switch. Thailand wasn’t a calculated choice so much…

I booked this trip at 11pm on a Tuesday after a meeting where someone used the phrase “synergize our deliverables” for the third time in an hour — my corporate brain needed an escape hatch, fast. Fifteen minutes later I had a one-way ticket to Bangkok, a mild panic attack,…

When I left my job without another one lined up, everyone thought I was having a breakdown. I was. But I was also buying a one-way ticket to Bangkok, and it turned out those two things were connected — because Thailand has a way of resetting something deep in you,…