Mystical Traveling

Benegil Cave, Lagos Postcards from Elsewhere Curated inspiration, travel insight, and your monthly reminder that life is meant to be experienced. Living Like A Local One of the things I'm looking forward to most this month is sharing our everyday life in Portugal with my daughter, Najja, and her boyfriend, Stefan. When we first moved here, everything felt new. We were the visitors, learning how life worked one experience at a time. Somewhere along the way, Portugal stopped feeling like a...

Hey Reader! Lately, we've discovered one of our favorite ways to travel and it has very little to do with the destination. We've been planning road trips around concerts. Over the past few months, we've seen Doja Cat, Cyndi Lauper, Foo Fighters, and Sting, with Lauryn Hill and Duran Duran coming up soon. We're even talking about making the trip to Milan to see Hermanos Gutiérrez. But the concerts almost become the excuse. Instead of looking at a four- or six-hour drive as something to "get...

Hey Reader! First, I want to say thank you. You believed in this Greece adventure from the very beginning, and because of that, I wanted to offer something special that's only being shared with those who have already booked. Since this cruise is my 50th birthday celebration, I've decided to arrive in Greece a few days early with a small group of friends, and I'd love to invite you to join us if you'd like! 🇬🇷 June 8–12, 2027 Nafplio, Greece Before we board our Celestyal cruise in Athens on...

La Jolla, CA Postcards from Elsewhere Curated inspiration, travel insight, and your monthly reminder that life is meant to be experienced. Explore the Community Chasing the Eclipse When we first started dreaming about seeing the 2026 total solar eclipse, we planned a group trip to Iceland. It felt like the perfect combination: an incredible natural phenomenon in one of the most breathtaking places on Earth. But life has a funny way of reminding us that plans are just the beginning of the...

There was a time when moving to Portugal felt completely unrealistic. It was one of those dreams that sounded wonderful… right up until my practical brain started listing all the reasons it couldn’t happen. “What about the kids?” “What about work?” “What if it doesn’t work out?” “What if we regret it?” Looking back now, I’m so grateful we didn’t wait until everything felt certain. Because it never would have. One thing I’ve learned this past year is that the biggest life decisions rarely come...

Algarve, Portugal Postcards from Elsewhere Curated inspiration, travel insight, and your monthly reminder that life is meant to be experienced. Explore the Community Why Some Places Change You Have you ever returned home from a trip and felt somehow different, even if you couldn’t explain why? I don’t think it’s always the famous landmarks or bucket-list experiences that change us. More often, it’s the unexpected moments: a conversation with a stranger, a sunset that makes you pause, or a...