Intentional Living

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.

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.