2022 Travel Year in Review: a Topsy-Turvy Route to Find Balance

The Local Tourist
11 min readJan 5, 2023

Traveling 93 days through twenty states is an unusual way to find balance, but when you’re a travel writer, it works.

Sunset on Long Beach from the car

I’ve never done a year in review before, despite publishing The Local Tourist for nearly twenty-one years. It feels a bit self-indulgent. “Look at me! Look at me!” But 2022 was transformative.

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The Local Tourist

Born to write with a nearly obsessive love of travel, history, cooking, Chicago, and my husband. Author, speaker, exuberant lover of life.