THE GETAWAY EDIT

Plan, Pack, Go: Travel Advice, Gear Guides & Itineraries.

Your well-traveled guidebook: expert tips, destination deep dives, packing hacks, & gear recommendations for spontaneous getaways & bucket-list adventures.

Living in Singapore: Then and Now (+ Travel Insights and Singapore FAQs)

Hi there! I'm Maddie, a recent graduate from the University of Colorado Boulder. I'm also Sherpani's newest team member as a Key Accounts Specialist! When I learned that our blog publishes...

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A (Road) Trip Down Memory Lane…

  I'll start with this: there are many worthy ways to travel. And now that this has been acknowledged, I want to make a case for my favorite kind: the...

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Five Historical Female Travelers You Should Know About

March is Women's History Month, a time to reflect on the women who carried us—literally and figuratively—to where we are today. We would like to highlight five women throughout history...

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Beautiful Bulgaria

I’d be lying if I said that I had ever once in my life looked at a map and picked out Bulgaria to ponder. As a geography buff, I was...

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Embracing the Moment, Tokyo Style

Kon'nichiwa! Actually - I’ll just start with hello. This blog is all about Tokyo, but for the time being, we can keep things in English. As I sit at my...

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Magic in the Mundane: A New Zealand Travel Story

Do you ever think about how life is really just a collection of moments? The big ones might mark the miles, but there is significance in every step. Small moments,...

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Falling for Copenhagen

The year was 2016, and it is wild to think about how this isn't exactly recent anymore. I was on the brink of my mid twenties, a tumultuous time for...

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Culture and Camaraderie in Cambodia

Although this story is about Cambodia, it really starts in Iceland. Allow me to explain.  It was October of 2021, and I had just booked a last-minute trip to the...

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