Travel in Peace - a Podcast

In the Season 1 finale, we reflect on the four years since losing our son Patrick to suicide — and the long, uneven path from survival to rebuilding a life we never could have imagined in the immediate aftermath of grief. We talk honestly about how loss reshaped our identities, our marriage, our priorities, and our understanding of home. Looking back year by year, we explore the realities of early...

Money was one of the things we thought we understood before we moved to Spain…and one of the things that turned out to be more complicated than we expected. Now that we’ve come through another tax season, we’re talking about what it really looks like to live here financially—day-to-day expenses, Spanish taxes, and what we’re learning as we head into our first full year as tax residents in 2026. Bu...

Note: Travel in Peace is a space for both outer and inner journeys. Some conversations, like this one, go into the deeper terrain of grief, loss, and meaning-making. In my second video with Esther, we explore how the loss of a child reshapes our relationships—and how, even surrounded by people, grief can feel deeply isolating. When our pain is too much for others to witness, it can leave us feelin...

Travel can shift how we see our lives — especially after loss. In this episode, we explore the intersection of grief and travel and why stepping outside the places where our loss occurred can sometimes help us see our pain from a new perspective. When familiar routines fall away, deeper questions often arise: Who am I now? What matters now? How do I want to live? These questions can feel disorient...

This episode explores what “home” really means—especially in the context of leaving Girona and arriving in our next home in Spain, Mallorca. For Tim, leaving Girona stirred something deeper than logistics; it felt like being retraumatized, similar to leaving the U.S.—a reminder that change can reopen old wounds of displacement and loss. For Laurel, the journey has been different. Over the past sev...

In this episode of Travel in Peace, Tim and Laurel reflect on how Tim’s Celiac diagnosis three years ago reshaped their lives and their approach to travel. What once felt like ordinary routines now comes with an added layer of vigilance, planning, and awareness — and a constant negotiation with uncertainty. The conversation explores how travel amplifies both the joys and the challenges of living w...

In our first episode, we talked about why we moved to Spain — and the idea that after catastrophic loss, you have to grow your life bigger than your grief. In this episode, we talk about what that actually requires internally. A few weeks after arriving in Girona, we began navigating the Spanish residency card process — something many people warned us would be frustrating and opaque. What surprise...

In this episode, we explore what it really means to feel settled and “at home”—in a town we had never visited, or wherever you find yourself. We talk about the daily rhythms that helped ground us, and the different things each of us needed to feel established and secure during a season of starting over. We reflect on how our experiences with loss shaped our ability to accept and adapt to the unkno...

In this episode of Travel in Peace , we share the unexpected story of how we landed in Girona—a place that wasn’t even on our radar when we began imagining a move to Spain. We talk about choosing a town we had never visited, finding a home through pure intuition, and what it felt like to arrive—each of us experiencing that first day very differently. Girona quickly became a symbol of stepping into...

Packing is supposed to be practical — suitcases, clothes for the right temperature, must-haves items, and what you’d turn around for on the drive to the airport. But as we prepared to leave our life in the U.S. for Spain, we discovered that packing is rarely just about things . In this episode, we talk about the emotional weight of deciding what comes with you into the next chapter — and what stay...

In this first episode, we share our “why” for moving to Spain for a year. After enduring catastrophic loss, we realized the only way forward is to grow a life bigger than our grief. For us, travel has always been a place of expansion—a space to breathe, reflect, and step into the unknown. Join us as we explore how embracing new places can open pathways to healing, transformation, and a life lived...