#17

So much to do and plan!

It’s been a slow process starting to prepare for the next on-the-road experience. Partly because life at home has been full — in the best of ways — and partly because I’ve learned to trust the timing and flow of what life offers in the moment.

Time feels like it’s speeding up, so I’ve been practicing pacing myself, breathing, and being present right here.

#16

There’s a moment I’ll never forget.

I was sitting on my balcony staring at the trees and feeling this strange mix of gratitude and restlessness. My life looked “good” — I had a great career, a home, a relationship I cared about. But inside, something was quietly tugging at me: there’s more.

It wasn’t about throwing everything away. It wasn’t about starting from scratch.
It was about stepping into a truer, more expansive version of myself — one that I could feel was waiting for me.

#15

I’ve learned so much from this first go-around with slow travel. We were flying by the seat of our pants, creating as we went, with no blueprint for how we would do this. There was so much to learn, to navigate, to plan — and so much I could only learn by actually living it.

#14

It was time to disembark.

This cruise has been good to us. We stayed healthy, rested, and I had the highlight day of the entire trip here. During one port with decent Wi-Fi, I booked us a hotel for four nights in Santiago, about an hour and a half from the port city of San Antonio where we got off the ship. Normally I’d have arranged our transfer in advance, but Tim assured me we could just figure it out when we got there. Unusual for me, and a good practice in letting go.