Culture & Connection

Written by - Lu Johnson, Founder and Curator at Mending Miles Co. Sanchez Restaurant in Playa del Carmen, Mexico is THAT girl 🫰🏾✨ I rode an hour from Cancun to discover Playa del Carmen by night, and I'm glad I said yes to the urge of taking the adventure a little further. Part of being intentional about my travels is choosing the destination and comitting to the adventure. This is a result of diving into all the firsts of solo tarvels. I understands what it feels like to g

Forget the airport fashion rules. Here is how to dress for the flight you are actually on, from aircraft type to seat class to shoes that survive a sprint through the terminal. I am a believer in looking your best and feeling your best being so exclusive, they have a couples name. In my traveler's opinion, the airport is a transit zone, a waiting room, a departure point for a thousand different lives moving in a thousand different directions.

An ode to the women who hold a culture together with their hands. What I learned in a Moldovan kitchen with Elena, Veronica, Mihaela, and a glass of Domno Mihai's Jin de Casa. A reflection on the gospodinã, the making of placinte, and the kind of womanhood that gets to be more nuanced than the versions we are most often handed. From Lu Johnson, founder of Mending Miles Co.

In this space, winemaking and history walk the red carpet. We come and go as witnesses as participants and who we are becomes an extension to the story moved by commitment to wine traditions that outlive us all.

After loss, joy can feel like a visitor that may not stay long. For years, that is the belief that drove me. I was careful not to laugh too loud, dream too big, or ask for too much. I was afraid joy would leave. Then I started finding myself alone on travels, yet somehow surrounded, by joy, by love, by life happening in the most surprising ways. Joy I never had to beg for found me. I did not have to whisper so it would not flee.