AirBnb is not the experience it used to be 🏖️
I'm back from a week long road trip with my family, and I have LOTS of money healing thoughts to share with you! 🚗🛣️
If you know for a fact that regular travel is an unquestionable TOP priority for you, and you'll live on ramen for months to afford it, no problem, then this blog may not be for you this week…
But I want to reach out to those of you who may feel left out of the influencer-pushed-exotic travel social pressure.
Plainly: Not everyone loves to travel. ✋❌
And I want to normalize you! I'm one of you too. 🤗
Do you feel a social pressure to travel? Does it seem like prioritizing travel is something you should do, more than you truly want to do? 🤔❓
I was questioning the value of travel the whole time we were on our trip.
What is the want beneath the want?
What were the deeper wants I had for this trip?
Did we have a nice time and go somewhere cool? Yes.
Did it feel great to be more on the receiving end of service than the one providing it? YES *although this is mixed because the childcare responsibilities were really intense.
Did it give us something special to look forward to? Yes. 🎉
Did my husband and I need to truly break from work for a week? Yes.
Did my kids really benefit from uninterrupted family time? Yes. 👨👩👧👦
Was part of the motivation to have a story ready when people ask, “any travel plans this summer?” Embarrassingly, YES 🤦♀️
Was all this worth the heap of cash 💸 we paid for lodging and meals? … not sure.
Am I also in a time of life when travel is really more trouble than it's worth? Double yes. We are a family of 5 (me, my husband, 2 kids under 11, and my mother-in-law who has a significant mobility impairment). We're an awkward crew to mobilize right now, and certainly extra difficult to do inexpensively. I acknowledge that travel probably won't always be as costly and cumbersome as it is for me now.
And still, staying close to home, even a stay-cation, feels like an act of rebellion when it seems everyone somehow makes it to Italy or Hawaii.
If this speaks to you, please know that I'm your home-body-buddy :) 👫
We've been talking about travel in the Club a lot the last week, and this topic seems to have opened up a bigger conversation about influencing, bucking cultural norms and de-influencing. It's so important to quiet the outside chatter so that we can listen to our values and spend accordingly, mindfully. ❤️
So comment and let me know, do you feel secretly under pressure to travel?
Not pictured: sibling rivalry, an over-stuffed hotel mini-fridge, and waking up with a 5-year-olds foot in my face…