Take one dozen midlife women who are mostly strangers on a NextTribe trip and what to you get? Adventure, admiration, a sense of relevancy and a shoulder to lean on. Editor Jeannie Ralston shares the story.
Travel
Vacationing with Grown Kids: Letting Go of Control and Letting Them Teach
After a couple of decades of shepherding family trips, Janet Siroto heads off with her 20-something sons and gets a whole new perspective on parenting.
Traveling? A Site Helps You Find a House/Pet Sitter or Be One
Worrying about furry friends at home while you’re on vacay? Buzzkill! We found a trustworthy site that will help ease your mind while you’re away from home.
Bud and Breakfast In Colorado: The New Travel Tourism Trend
Weed-related travel—or should we says trips?—is booming. Especially in Colorado. Here’s what you need to know about cannabis tourism.
Going the Distance: A 200-Mile Bike Tour Called Marriage
Jeannie Ralston and her husband cycled around Scotland, through rain, sun, and steep hills. Here, she shares the surprising way it helped her understand her 25 years of marriage.
Solo Trip to Paris: How a Medical Scare Launched One Woman’s Dream
If not now, when? That’s the question Julia Wright contemplated after a medical scare. Here’s how she made the trip she’d always fantasized about finally happen
What I Learned About Food—and Life—Serving in the Peace Corps at Middle Age
Needing a life change, caterer Bonnie Lee Black did something drastic and headed to Africa on a humanitarian mission. Here, her journal of what she discovered about chickens, friendship—and herself.
Thai Massage In an Overseas Prison? Yup, This Writer Tried It
In Thailand, Anne Bayin went spa-hopping and discovered that feeling good could actually do good.
Family Road Trip: Our End-of-Childhood RV Tour of the West
The summer before her oldest headed to college, NextTribe’s Jeannie Ralston and family traveled through national parks in an RV. There, among the wilds of the West, she discovered lessons about the final chapters of parenting and letting go.
Crossed Paths, Parallel Lives: What I Learned When I Returned to China
When Michele Willens traveled back to China, she had a mission: To track down the daughter of a man she’d met on her first trip, 44 years earlier. Here she shares the stark differences and the universal truths about a woman’s world at midlife.
