Moving beyond one’s zipcode can be daunting. You’re signing up to leave everything you’ve ever known and hoping that you will be rewarded for taking a leap into the unknown. For Mississippi native, real estate closer, and photographer, Leah Bardin, moving beyond her zipcode was...
Category: Travel
On My Terms: How Ceighlee Fennel’s Derailed Dream Turned into a Year-Long Travel Around the U.S.
posted by: aaliyahinspired
April 30, 2025
COVID-19 derailed many hopes, dreams, and plans as it spread globally, taking many lives in the process. For Ceighlee Fennel, her dreams of moving and working abroad as a freelance travel journalist was swept up in the chaos of the COVID years, leaving her with...
One-Way Ticket into a Life Beyond the Blueprint
posted by: aaliyahinspired
December 30, 2024
I remember my first day of kindergarten. I walked up to the heavily decorated door, hand-in-hand with my mom. She bent down, squeezed me tight, and said something along the lines of, “have a great day, love you.” Now, I don’t know how my mom...
Slow Travel: A Wanderlust’s Ticket to Sustainable and Immersive Traveling
posted by: aaliyahinspired
March 18, 2024
Whenever many of us think about vacations, long jam-packed itineraries usually come to mind. Every single day of the vacation is planned to the minute — what time to wake up, what time to get breakfast, what time to sight-see this attraction, what time to...
What Belize Taught me About Simple Living
posted by: aaliyahinspired
July 17, 2019
It was 6 a.m. and I was sitting on a rustic, white boat riding the waves to Belize. The ocean spritz gently soothing my warm face as I gazed at the endless scenery of deep, blue waves. I couldn’t help but live in this beautiful...