All things travel.

Talking EPM, the Calpak Luka Duffel, packing light, and more.

If you have been following along my Substack journey since the beginning of this year, you’ll know that one of my goals for the year was to simplify. I had spent so many years trying to do everything: Blog! Consulting! Freelance writing! Freelance writing coaching! Instagram! YouTube! Essays! Shopping round-ups! Links! And on and on it went. So this year, the idea was, well, simple: I would stop trying to do it all, all the time.

Part of my strategy for simplifying things was to switch to a very basic, no frills website. A simple hub that explained who I am and what I do to direct people in the right direction. I switched website hosting services in the process, but when I did… I inadvertently made my former blog nearly impossible to access. Now, if I really wanted to, I think I could find those posts again, though it would be an annoying process that is more technical than is worth explaining. I could probably salvage my few SEO gems (I was pretty proud that when you Googled “Calpak …