ENCOUNTER. TASTE. BECOMING.

Three threads that always lead back to the same place.

O u r s e l v e s.

Travel is the envelope. What's inside are stories of self-discovery and connection that reshape us.

Travel’s transformative power has infinite expressions.

Our stories celebrate just a few of the curious, delicious and marvelous ways transformation manifests when we move with intent.

The Untethered Traveler Tessera Series

A tessera is a single tile in a mosaic. Each story here is a moment of noticing, a question, a reckoning, a shift. Taken alone only a fragment. Taken together, a portrait of what travel actually builds when we let it. A Mosaic.

Collisions

Encounter.

Collisions are the unplanned moments that make travel matter. Each encounter leaves its mark not only on how we move, but who we become.

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Taste, My Compass

Taste.

Taste, My Compass follows taste as navigation system. It charts the instincts behind each bite and sip that pull us toward just the right place and story.

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Tessera Editions

Becoming.

A Tessera is a single tile in a mosaic - small on its own, essential to the whole. Together, they form a portrait of travel as both journey and becoming.

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Reflections on travel, intention, taste and the moments that shape how we move through the world.

A large, lush green tree in the foreground on the left side, with a landscape of rolling hills, fields, and scattered trees in the distance under a colorful sunset sky with clouds.
A backyard scene with a large potted pink flower, a swimming pool, umbrellas, and trees under a bright, sunny sky.

Every journey leaves a Tessera.

And yet we make it so much more complicated than this… #tesseramoments
COLLISION 00018: Where Potential, Possibility and Place Collide Since returning home from South Africa, I have tried to trace back the roots of a mysterious feeling that’s all but overcome me.  I am restless, unsettled and uncharacteristi
At the Tasting Table as in Life: After writing my last Tessera, The Beauty in the Space Between, I felt called to more deeply explore what my experience with wine around the world has come to teach me about tasting with a beginner’s open mind.
There is always a story behind the label. South African winemaker Jasper Raats’ Cape Red Blend, Skebenga (slang in Zulu for bandit/gangster), supports communities affected by gang violence. When the spirit of the land influences what we sip.
Nothing beautiful gets made alone. Tessera Ed. 72: The Beauty in the Space Between is now live. Read from link in bio or copy the url below. https://www.theuntetheredtraveler.com/tesserablog/the-beauty-in-the-space-between #IntentionalTravel #T
Strawberries & South Africa #tasteledtravel
The more I travel, and perhaps more importantly, the more I write about travel, the more I realize it is the ultimate collaboration. Joy, wonder, gratitude - they all compound when people, place and purpose collide. #IntentionalTravel #TesseraMomen
COLLISION 00017 As my time in Cape Town came to a close, I’ll admit I became increasingly fixated on getting the upgrade for the flight home.  I had been fortunate enough on my way out to get the big upgrade flying Polaris, United’s