What If Your First Trip Quietly Built You? // 183

What If Your First Trip Quietly Built You? // 183

April 21, 2026 · 14 min · Season 4 · Episode 183

About this episode

The episode explores how childhood travel experiences shape adult travel styles and confidence.

Your travel style didn’t start when you booked your first grown-up trip. It started the first time you learned what “new” feels like. We’re digging into the idea of a travel origin story and how childhood experiences can shape your adult relationship with road trips, adventure travel, and even solo travel confidence. I share one of the most defining trips of my life: a four-to-five-week RV road trip at age nine, crammed in with a family of six and rolling from Pennsylvania through the Midwes...

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