Category: Slow Travel
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Expat Parenting and Solo Travel
Paula Barnes has been living the expat life for close to two decades now, and if there’s one thing her story proves, it’s that confidence in travel isn’t something you’re born with — you build it, one uncomfortable moment at a time. She and her husband left Australia thinking they’d do six months in Taiwan.…
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A Chat With Madison Rolley
Technology is changing travel planning faster than a lot of us can keep up with. And if you’re a retiree, or just late to this particular party, it can feel like someone handed you a new phone and expected you to already know the passcode. This episode is our attempt to connect the dots between…
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Ultimate AI travel planning that actually saves you time
Planning a long Europe trip sounds romantic, but the reality can be tough. Check-in windows, long transit days, and missed connections add to the challenge. The task of stitching lodging, trains, and buses across many countries also wears you down. With overland travel, we stay in city centers instead of airports. It gives us more…
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How Educational Travel Builds Confidence Through Connection
Saying yes to the trips that scare you a little can reshape your entire life, and that idea sits at the heart of this conversation with Jewel Rozanski, founder of Cultured Travel. After 14 years as a public high school Spanish teacher and training in educational psychology, she turns educational travel into a practical path…
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Travel Smarter in an Uncertain World
Planning a long-term international trip used to feel like a puzzle you could solve once and then relax. Now it can feel like the pieces keep moving: visa requirements shift, flight routes get consolidated, exchange rates jump, and headlines make every destination sound risky. The core skill is not predicting the future. It is building…
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The Reality of Long-Term Travel
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Long-term travel isn’t only about epic sights and bucket-list moments. It’s a lifestyle choice that reshapes your days, your expectations, and your patience. On Wherever We May Roam, we talk through the reality of long-term travel: the rewards, the challenges, and the surprises people rarely plan for. Whether you’re considering an extended getaway, part-time roaming,…
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How AI Turned Days of Trip Planning Into Minutes: A Case Study
By Jim Santos, Wherever We May Roam If you’ve ever tried to plan a multi-country, multi-city overland trip through Europe, you know the drill. You open fifteen browser tabs. You start a spreadsheet. You cross-reference bus schedules against train schedules against “wait, is this city even worth two nights?” And somewhere around city number six,…
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Pack Lighter And Travel Easier With Simple Systems
When people picture travel, they imagine iconic sights, not the behind-the-scenes decisions that decide whether a trip feels smooth or stressful. In this conversation, we focus on travel logistics, smart packing strategies, and the practical travel systems that make long-term travel easier. The core idea is simple: travel itself is not complicated, but poor logistics…
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Skip the Airport: How Buses and Trains Make Europe Better (and Cheaper)
By Jim Santos | Wherever We May Roam There’s a moment every traveler knows. You’ve just landed at a new airport, shuffled through passport control, waited at baggage claim, navigated a confusing terminal, and finally emerged into daylight — blinking and slightly dazed — in a city you haven’t actually seen yet. You flew over 600 miles…
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Doing the Schengen Shuffle
Long-term travel gets dramatically easier when you treat visas, entry rules, and passport validity as part of trip design, not last-minute admin. Jim and Rita lay out a simple truth: there is no single “right” travel style, but every style runs into the same border math. Many destinations allow US passport holders to arrive without…
