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how I make work trips slightly less horrible (opens the original)
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I’ve often joked that it takes me roughly three to five business days to recover from any lengthy social engagement. Turns out the joke’s on me, because I got back from a work trip to Prague last Friday, and it did literally take until today (yep, five business days!) for me to actually feel like myself again. This trip was for my day job, not for a travel writing gig. My company’s whole marketing team, about 100 people, gathered from Monday through Friday and spent just about every waking momen
you’re not made of sugar: a guide to surviving Dutch rain (opens the original)
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Raise your hand if you’re an immigrant in the Netherlands and have felt personally victimized by Dutch weather.POV: You leave the house and it’s sunny, and 20 minutes later you’ve experienced rain, sleet, hail, and are now somehow back to sunshine. You look like you’ve narrowly survived a shipwreck as a Dutch person cycles past you, somehow completely dry and unbothered.So how do you become the person who just… gets on with it? Because I’ll admit it: For a long time, my American instinct when I
my neurodivergent trip planning template (opens the original)
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If you read my most recent post about how I plan trips without planning all the fun out of them, you already know that my travel-planning philosophy is basically this: I want enough structure to feel safe and prepared, but not so much structure that my vacation starts feeling like a work assignment. I explained the “structured spontaneity”-based system I’ve started using that puts this philosophy in practice. But because I know that knowing what
how I plan a trip without planning the fun out of it (opens the original)
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I love traveling. (Obviously.)But over the course of my career as a travel writer and my lifetime of autism and ADHD, I’ve learned that there are two ways travel can go wrong for my neurodivergent brain: not enough planning, and too much planning.The thing is, the autistic side of my brain needs structure to feel comfortable. I want to know where I’m sleeping, how I’m getting there, what’s happening next, and what my o
my grown-up back-to-school shopping list (opens the original)
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I haven’t been a student in years, but at the end of every summer, I still start to get this weird urge to prepare to go back to school. Growing up in the U.S., August meant a very specific kind of anticipation: a trip to the mall with my mom for new clothes and shoes, a fresh backpack, new notebooks with pristine pages, very particular pens and pencils I was irrationally excited about, and the feeling that somehow with the right supplies, I might become an entirely new and much more organized p
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