Important milestones are usually celebrated with loved ones, but this year, for my birthday, I decided to take a bucket-list trip to Hong Kong and Japan — on my own. Originally, I’d planned to celebrate at a rooftop bar with friends, but this trip has been on my mind for years. Instead, I cancelled my
Business class plane tickets were already booked to fly around the world for my husband’s 50th birthday. Then he threw me a curveball: an African safari was also on his bucket list. He wanted to fulfill his wish considering the limitations of money and time. After all, when I heard “African safari,” all I could
My sister and I spent a week in Santorini to celebrate my 30th birthday. Somehow that became a sacred tradition, and for the next decade I made a trip every year to celebrate my birthday. I called one birthday road tripping from Seattle to San Diego in a Mustang convertible and another touring castles and
