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It is 8:55 AM on a Tuesday. I am currently sitting in a small Airbnb in Lisbon, desperately trying to angle my laptop so the pile of drying laundry behind me isn’t visible on my Zoom background. My 8-year-old is asking—loudly—where his swim goggles are, despite the fact that we are going to a museum, not the beach. My 12-year-old is complaining that the Wi-Fi is “laggy” and she can’t load her coding class.

I mute my microphone, take a deep breath, and smile at the camera.

Welcome to the glamour of full-time travel.

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Society tells women a very specific story about aging. It tells us that once the children are grown, the career is peaked, and the hair turns silver, we are supposed to fade quietly into the background. We are supposed to become “invisible.”

To that, I say: Good.

Because while the world wasn’t looking, I was booking a one-way ticket to Lisbon.

If you had told me at 25 that my most adventurous years would begin at 55, I would have laughed. Back then, travel was a chaotic mix of heavy backpacks, cheap hostels, and anxiety. Now? It is silk scarves, direct flights, and the kind of deep, resonant confidence that only comes from living five decades on this earth.

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