Hi! I’m so happy you’re here. I love to travel for all of the things it teaches me, and my goal is to share with you the how-to, the stories, the adventures, and the learnings I gather along the way.
My husband Alex and I are living the ‘full time travel’ life and spending the year of 2023 exploring the world. We’re starting in South East Asia in the winter and spring and then planning to be in the Mediterranean for the summer. That’s what life looks like today, but we didn’t just start at this point. The full journey . . .
This blog was a dream for many years, and in the summer of 2019, I made it a reality. I started by sharing guides and insights on my travels in Spain, Belgium, and France. At the same time, I also started a journey into mindfulness. I find so many parallels between finding more calm and ease in life that I apply to travel and vice versa. The adventure down a bumpy dirt road to a new destination is a great reminder of how to handle the more challenging times in life. My hope is to create culture-focused travel guides with reminders of mindfulness. I want you to connect with the places you visit and the people who call them home.
In 2020, travel came to a halt. I turned towards writing posts on how to travel without leaving home to help keep the wanderlust alive for you and me both. Travel shows become a weekly staple in my house, and I found escapes to new destinations in the books I read. One of the silver linings was traveling more within my own backyard and appreciating living in the beautiful state of California.
During this time, I was working as a product marketer for a tech company in San Francisco. This blog was relegated to a passion project with the hopes of one day turning it into a full-time focus. But given where we currently are . . .
Dreams do become reality.
In November 2022, we packed up our apartment, put our things into storage, and moved our home base to the UK. Since January 2023 we’ve been living our dream and traveling with the goal of 15 countries this year. We’ve been sharing our travels along the way here on the blog, on our Instagram, YouTube, and Twitter.
Since the world has begun to reopen, there’s a sense of optimism coming back to the travel community. As we all return to traveling again, my hope is that it’s even more thoughtful and sustainable than ever before. We learned how much certain communities depended on tourism, while also watching those same communities enjoy their most popular sites without the crush of people. How wonderful would it be to see a nice balance of communities thriving within themselves while also benefiting from tourism?
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Roam Where is the travel blog of Rachel Boyles and Alexander Boyles. Based in the UK, travel is our passion. The best experiences involve connecting with cultures and communities. Our goal is to create a travel community to encourage others to travel, connect people and places, share their experiences, and never stop exploring.
All photos on this site were taken by Rachel Boyles and Alexander Boyles as they have been traveling the world.