Uncover What Moves You

Travel isn’t just about where you go.

It’s about what pulls you forward, what expands inside you and how you come back.

TRAVEL, ON PURPOSE.

What We Believe

We believe the why matters the intention beneath every real journey.

Because where you go is one thing.
But why you go shapes everything.

We believe travel isn’t escape.
It’s expansion.
A widening.
A return to yourself with more room inside.

We believe intention transforms how you move what you notice, what you carry, what you let go of.

We believe taste is a compass.
Not indulgence, but orientation.
A signal of alignment.

We believe in micro-movements the small shifts that reshape a life
and ripple outward, quietly and powerfully.

Travel shaped by intention.

This is a way of thinking about movement, intention and the subtle forces that shape how we move through the world. The Untethered Traveler exists to help you notice what’s already guiding you and to travel in a way that feels aligned, meaningful and true to who you are becoming.

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Every journey leaves a Tessera.

Tessera 43 takes me back this week to my first solo trip - Prague 2017. It turns out by accepting an invitation to see the world on my own terms I was signaling to the universe around me I was ready to travel as a means of self-discovery. Whether I
What began as a weekly writing practice became the work itself, using travel and reflection to strip away inertia and bring clarity into focus. If Taste is my compass, writing is how I tune into it. Tessera 42 holds a quiet symmetry. Rome was the f
Malta unexpectedly became a place where movement stopped working as an answer…In Tessera 41: Where Too Much Led Me in Malta I explore capacity, stillness and knowing when to stop. #IntentionalTravel #wanderwithpurpose #TesseraMoments #Unt
This week’s Tessera is ultimately a great big thank you - to movement, to intention, to awareness and to the places, taste and people that helped me see what life had already set in motion. #IntentionalTravel #SavorTheJourney #TravelWithInten
The moments I wanted to forget and throw away became the ones that taught me the most. 24 hours in Tokyo revealed how missteps carry quiet meaning. Read Tessera Blog 39: Translating Life’s Signals in Tokyo now live on theuntetheredtraveler.co
Kyoto, Japan from start to finish a ceremony in stillness and taste. Majestic, elegant, spectacular. Blog 38 is now live - read from Link in Bio or for free on our Substack. Once I got started this was a joy to relive and write. Enjoy. #Intenti
Seoul, Korea was unlike any other. Tessera 37 has dropped. A reflection on how instinct and kindness shaped the rhythm I found in a city alive with contradiction. Read from link in bio or for free on Substack. #IntentionalTravel #SavorTheJourney
One day in Orvieto, Italy carried more meaning than I understood at the time. When the places we visit, never leave us. Now LIVE: Blog 36. One Day Trip to Orvieto, One Year Set in Motion Looking back on a truly different kind of year shaped by wh
Before every journey there’s a pause, the moment between wanting to go and knowing why. This week in Tessera Blog 35 I’m writing about that space in between - the beating heart of intentional travel. Read from Link in Bio. And if you'r
I never intended to visit Luxembourg one day. But meaning has a way of showing up when we stop steering. New on The Untethered Traveler: Traveling Luxembourg with Whim & Wonder - a story about Taste, chance and the beauty of letting go. #Inten