Lauren’s TRAVELS

A GLIMPSE INTO MY TRAVEL LIFE

I gratefully (and with SUCH privilege) get to travel and live abroad for 8+ months of the year (currently entering year 7 of this dream schedule). Brazil has become my 2nd home, where I spend 4-6 months a year in a little town that I adore and protect deeply. And the other 2-4+ months are spent travelling to new places around the world, trying to spend minimum 1 month in a country.

I work my little butt off in the summer time, trying to fit 12 months worth of work into 4 months (pretty much ZERO work-life balance lol!), and then get to leave immediately after my final wedding of the season, and edit the rest of the galleries abroad in the warmth and surf every day between editing sessions! Truly a dream.

I’ve had the absolute pleasure of stepping-foot in and photographing 35 countries, but know I’ve barely even started to scrape the surface of exploring this wet, spinning ball (in the middle of no where), that we call Earth. 95% of the time, I’m a slow traveler. I’m not a fan of jumping around a country at lightning speed, because I’ve found that when you do that, you simply end up missing out and skipping over all the reasons why travel is so rich in the first place.

Me: Why would I stay in cold and grey Toronto year-round, when I could go somewhere warm and beautiful and sunny for a quarter of the price?!