Most of us say “I can’t afford it” about a trip before we’ve ever worked out what it would actually cost. Jillian Johnsrud, author of Retire Often, has taken more than a dozen mini retirements, and she shows how pricing a trip line by line turns a someday into a real decision, whether you have a month or a week.
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There isn’t one right trip to find. The best afternoon I ever had in Osaka was a walk I chose and a table by a garden, nothing that would make a list. Planning a solo trip you’ll actually enjoy is less about logistics than design, and the key move is subtraction: take the shoulds off and build the trip around the woman who is actually going.
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A Sufi teacher in India told me in my mid-twenties that I was watching my life pass by from a train window. Kellie Stirling of Talking About Midlife interviewed me, and we started from the very beginning, long before I was a solo traveller. We also talk about the difference between searching for yourself and meeting yourself.
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