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Sarah Wood González

Style & Culture Writer in The New York Times, Vogue, Condé Nast Traveler, Refinery29, The Cut

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In my latest newsletter, I wrote about the overwhelming volume of travel content (the Tiktok hashtag #EuropeanSummer has 158.6M posts!) and how curated recommendations and planning your trip offline before booking online can help cut through the algorithm. You can read the whole newsletter here: https://lnkd.in/dXAdNWit

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Hi, my name is Sarah and I write a newsletter called Liminal Space and I just heard a newsletter about vacation FOMO and it's something that is very top of mind because I was going to plan a summer holiday with my husband and I started doing this thing which is what I always do where I. Just get completely overwhelmed with you know where I wanna go and I go on all these websites and open up all these recommendations and I have all these tabs open and like I'm. Just completely optimizing for the wrong thing and then I end up getting very overwhelmed and. I just started to think about this whole idea of vocation, FOMO and. Like. Why am I getting stressed out planning something that's supposed to be lovely and restful and indulgent? And then I started to go into some of the research around how vacation has gotten much more expensive. Like luxury travel is, I think like 70% more than it used to be in 2019, according to one study. And then people are taking less vacation days than ever. The average American takes like 11 vacation days and. Then the trend of Euro summer and there's just so much content and you're getting inundated with everyone being on these absolutely amazing vacations and you feel this heightened sense to make your vacation perfect and. I thought about that a lot and I've wrote about it on my newsletter and basically I got to the end and to the realization that. You really, when you're thinking about travel, you have to think about what you're traveling for and who you're traveling for, which should be yourself and not the performance of travel. And that's something I'm really trying to internalize and something my husband does naturally. He like, cannot comprehend this idea of vacation film. Well, he could walk down the street in a random place and have an amazing time. And I'm someone who wants to, you know, make sure I'm going to the best place. And I'm really trying to unwire rewire. That part of my brain and how I'm going to do that is starting to plan my trips offline first, so just syncing up and getting aligned. With Gustavo or with whoever I'm traveling, you know, what is the purpose of this trip? Is it for rest? Is it for, you know, to see art that you know what, what are we trying to do? And then once we have the purpose and the constraints to find, then going into the world of content and seeing all the things out there. And really, I'm just trying. To move away from getting all of these recommendations and things and really, you know, have our own trip and discover things and really make it our own instead of taking someone else's itinerary or feeling this need to do everything in the place. And yes, I'm wondering if anyone has thoughts about this. But if you want to read my newsletter, it's a liminal space on sub stack and I'm super curious if any of this resonates with you. And thanks for listening, bye.

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