What is ‘The Shooting Star Insider’
In the era of Instagram trends and overtourism, The Shooting Star Insider is an invitation to embrace slow, soulful, sustainable travel. Join my adventures, as I navigate a (messy) life of long-term travel and examine existential dilemmas. I land in your inbox once a month, with unique travel ideas and opportunities, and recommendations of independent books and films that have impacted me.
Who am I?
Over a decade ago, I quit my full-time job, gave up my rented apartment, sold most of my belongings, and embraced a nomadic life. Having grown up in a protective family in the Indian Himalayas, I wanted to build a life on my terms – a life of travel, freedom and adventure – and I did. I’ve lived with local communities from Guatemala to Uzbekistan, slept in the Sahara Desert, e-biked across the Swiss Alps, travelled overland from Iran to Armenia, and broken bread with Indigenous shamans in the Amazon rainforest.
I’ve written for some of the world’s leading travel publications, including BBC Travel and Lonely Planet, published a bestselling travel memoir, and founded an award-winning travel blog. I share my slow travel escapades on Instagram, and teach a course on how to get paid to travel the world with purpose. This newsletter is my space for honest, raw, heartfelt stories of life on the road, that only belong in your inbox.
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