"In January 2024, I arrived at a friend's farmhouse in Costa Rica. It was the start of a six-week stay that kicked off what I intended to be a year packed with international travel. Stops back home in Canada, and a trip to Argentina had already been penciled in. At the time, I didn't realize that moving forward, that trip would quietly replace New Year's resolutions altogether."
"For those six weeks, I settled into rural rhythms. I woke just as the sunlight turned golden, watching green parrots glide overhead. I visited a ranch where locals rode horses and practiced lassoing. I ran up steep country roads, ate the area's famous chicharrón (a success), and tried to milk a cow (a colossal failure). The experience was phenomenal. But one evening, as I cooked a simple meal in San José, a pang of homesickness hit me."
Sinead Mulhern left Canada for a slower, more affordable life in Cuenca, Ecuador. She now begins each year with a trip instead of setting New Year's resolutions. In January 2024 she spent six weeks at a friend's farmhouse in Costa Rica, following rural rhythms, watching parrots, visiting a ranch, running steep roads, eating local chicharrón and attempting to milk a cow. An evening of homesickness made clarity emerge: wanderlust felt satisfied and she wanted to return home. She returned to Cuenca, deepened local roots, made new friends, took up Pilates and built a grounding routine. Stepping away first offered clearer priorities than traditional resolutions.
Read at Business Insider
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