Uncover What Moves You

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The Untethered Traveler offers curious, open-minded explorers a reimagined, more abundant perspective on travel. Rooted in intentional travel and a taste-led lifestyle, our mindful approach helps you extract maximum value, meaning, and joy from every journey.

Launched in Spring 2025, we share seasoned travel stories, inspiration, and recommendations that balance style and substance - guided by intuition, experience, and a deep belief in travel’s transformative power.

Our mission: to help you embrace Traveling with Intent -unlocking passion, purpose, and possibility through every trip. By tapping into the world’s abundance of taste, we go beyond sightseeing to uncover deeper self-discovery and connection.

Travel with Purpose. Travel with Intent.

It was kismet that the exact way I had reappraised my own life through untethered, intentional travel had fatefully led me right into the premise of my own purpose. 

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Not All Who Wander Are Lost

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43 countries visited

24 countries untethered & solo

Every journey leaves a Tessera. Together, they tell your story.

Some places are more than beautiful; they’re anchors in our story.
Santorini is where my body first softened in awe and gratitude. Where flavors, colors and conversations lit a fire I didn’t yet have a name for. And where, years later, I
Travel with intent isn’t about how far you go or how much you see. 
It’s about paying attention to what’s in front of you, what’s in your glass, and what’s in the air around you.
 The moments that stay with us aren&rsquo
What do you say about a place that made you question almost everything? 
The beauty, the history, the food, the faith... it was all there. So was the heartbreak. The heaviness.
The deep, disorienting sense that God felt far away. This is my story o
There’s something about finding just the right spot, that hits the spot. I found Dorado Cafe when traveling in Budapest with my brothers in October 2022. What’s behind the taste though? As I’ve been exploring each week through a
It’s still amazing to me how taste forms lasting, strong memories. For whatever reason, I’ve been thinking a lot about this lunch I had in Copenhagen as a newish solo traveler many years ago (seven!). I didn’t expect to remember it
This isn’t just my next trip. It’s my next chapter. 
After 3 months of intentional stillness, I’m saying yes to travel again but not because I need escape. This time, I’m moving toward something: a calling, a story and a purpo
There is something to learn from every we trip we take. It may not strike us right there in the moment. It may even lay dormant within for months, years… And then suddenly, there it is. Right when we need it. That’s the magic of travel
Not every trip is a revelation in real time. Sometimes the meaning rushes in only after we stop outrunning ourselves. Bali wasn’t my most intentional trip but it gave me something better: context, clarity, and a deeper capacity for self-compa