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Travel Plans and Dreams for 2022

“Travel… shakes you out of the steady medium of your everyday routine and creates room for highs and lows, for intense new flavours and surprising sights, for experiences that are unpredictable and vivid and extraordinary.” After two years of living…

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2021: The Year in Review on Stories My Suitcase Could Tell

Well, here we are, at the end of another pandemic year. For me, 2021 has felt both long and short, confined and freeing; better than 2020, but still far from normal. In my first blog post of the year, I…

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Appalachian Trail New Jersey

Notes on Adventure Travel, and Reconnecting with Nature

Sharp peaks, gleaming glacial lakes, trees that reach into the sky: on Instagram, all the splendour of nature is laid out before you in neat little squares, a social media patchwork of the appeal of adventure travel. Even within my…

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Walking on Bayble Beach Isle of Lewis

Travel Plans and Dreams for 2021

“Once we stop wishing it were summer, winter can be a glorious season when the world takes on a sparse beauty, and even the pavements sparkle. It’s a time for reflection and recuperation, for slow replenishment, for putting your house…

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2020: The Year in Review on Stories My Suitcase Could Tell

As the wild ride that is 2020 comes to a close, it’s time for my annual “Year in Review” blog post on Stories My Suitcase Could Tell. I usually love the end-of-year reviews and reflections that pop up across newspapers,…

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Manhattan skyline in summer

My 2020 Travel Plans: A Mid-Year Update

Well, that didn’t go according to plan! My annual “Travel Plans and Dreams” post from January of this year is so far removed from life as it is now, in the summer of 2020, that reading it feels like looking…

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