Start Here: A Slow-Travel Guide to Belonging
For travelers, dreamers, and midlife reinventors who want a slower, more intentional life.
Welcome — I’m Kelly.
In my early 50s, I stepped out of full-time work and my husband, Nigel, and I began slow-traveling the world one month at a time. We live on a 5–2 rhythm — five months abroad, two months in Houston — tracing seasons, light, and the places that make us feel most alive.
I write for people who want a slower, more intentional life — not someday, but now.
People rethinking how they want to live, work, age, rest, travel, and belong.
My work appears in Business Insider and Travel + Leisure, but this is the table where the deeper stories live:
the identity shifts, the reinventions, the courage, the belonging, the in-between seasons no one prepares you for.
Start with these reader favorites
The Best Place to Live Abroad Doesn’t Exist
It’s my most-read piece and the foundation of our slow-travel philosophy.
I Retired Early to Travel — But Sometimes I Miss Having a Job…
It’s about identity, purpose, and the strange emotional hangover of leaving work.
Reverse Legacy: Letting Go of “Someday”
A story about choosing the life you want while you’re still here to live it.
If you’re rethinking your next chapter…
Many readers here are:
navigating midlife transitions
reinventing after burnout or retirement
longing for more rhythm and less rush
wondering where (and how) they want to live next
curious about spending a month abroad — or many
If that’s you, you’re in the right place.
A new paid layer (for the people who want to go deeper)
I share Sunday essays and weekly Notes for free — always will.
But for readers who want more structure as they rethink their next season, I also publish:
• Weekly paid essays on reinvention, identity, and designing a life by seasons
• The Slow Travel Toolkit, unfolding piece by piece
• A private chat for deeper conversation and personalized guidance
No pressure. No FOMO. Just an invitation if you’re in a moment of widening your life.
Thanks for being here — truly.
This is a community of people learning to live with more intention, more light, and more room to breathe.
If slow travel, reinvention, and belonging speak to you, I’d love to have you here with us.
Subscribe for free to get Sunday essays + weekly Notes.
You can upgrade anytime if you want to support the deeper work (and the wine).
💛 Kelly