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'Call You When I Land' hits bookstores this Tuesday!
In this newsletter: ‘Call You When I Land’ book tour events, a women-owned holiday gift guide, and the best solo travel destinations for women. If you’ve found your way here but are not yet subscribed, here, let me help you with that (it’s free):
A few newsletters ago, I shared the news that I was writing a travel memoir, which would be published by HarperCollins come this fall. Well, that travel memoir is finally landing in bookstores TOMORROW! Call You When I Land is a journey over ten years in the making, an adventure marked by landings and takeoffs, epiphanies and revelations, beautiful countries, and crowded hostels.
My travel memoir begins in the jungles of Argentina where you find me as a 20-something runaway bride, a week before my big day, screaming into the trees that I don’t want to get married. What comes next is a coming-of-age story that finds me chasing my dream of being a travel writer across the globe, investigating family secrets (like a mysterious unsolved murder), navigating heartbreak and new love, and eventually finding myself back in that same Argentina jungle nearly 10 years later, this time under very different circumstances.
My travel memoir details the many ways travel has shaped my life and morphed me into the woman I am today and how the simple act of traveling has the power to completely transform us on an almost molecular level, bringing us to new places far from where we started. Named one of the best women’s memoirs of the year by Glamour, chosen as a Staff Pick by Apple Books, and recommended by Shondaland, Forbes, and more—you can order my travel memoir wherever books are sold.
This month, I’ll be headed on book tour with stops at bookstores in New York, Chicago, Boston, Washington D.C, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles (with more city stops to be announced soon). Along the way, I’ll be joined by exciting guests, including Emmy-winning travel host Samantha Brown, Cosmopolitan Lifestyle Editor Christen A. Johnson, and more. If I come to your neck of the woods, I hope you’ll join me for an evening of books, travel, and (in the case of a few events) complimentary wine. All events are free to attend, you can find details here:
Every year, travel trends all point to one truth: solo travel will never go out of style, especially for women. Google data shows that post-pandemic solo trips rose a whopping 761%, with 85% of women ages 55+ continuing to travel solo.
Airbnb partnered with the personal safety app, WalkSafe, to look into the top destinations for solo traveling women. By checking out which cities have the highest percentage of nights booked by solo travelers, they pulled together a list of places that rank as wonderful options for women traveling solo.
While behemoths like Amazon and Walmart have more than doubled their profits in recent years (raking in an estimated $133 billion in combined revenue), small business owners have been fighting to keep the lights on.
This winter, rather than throw your money into the hands of big businesses, check out Unearth Women’s holiday gift guide and shop from these women and BIPOC-owned companies instead. From handcrafted olive oils to custom travel portraits, these unique gifts promise to both impress and put money into the hands of women and BIPOC entrepreneurs.
Whether it’s backing down from a fight or giving into that midnight snack—there are times in life when one must admit defeat with grace. My efforts to try and keep this newsletter consistent is one such defeat. This newsletter, which started in the throes of the COVID quarantine, began with the most earnest of intentions: a weekly newsletter that would share travel stories during a time when we could only dream of traveling.
Once the world opened up and travel jumped out of our dreams and back into our realities, this newsletter became less consistent. Neglected on the altar of personal and professional commitments—a full-time job, writing a book, wedding planning, a honeymoon—it is with grace, that I admit defeat. Rather than push out a newsletter each week for the sake of pressing publish, this newsletter will simply be a periodic burst of wanderlust that hits your inbox like a sparkly comet and then goes dark. Maybe it goes dark for a week, maybe it goes dark for a month, but whenever it flashes across the inter-webs and hits your inbox, it’ll promise to fuel your love of travel. I hope you’ll stick around.
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