Choose Your Own Adventure
The Way Fly encourages you to follow your inner compass and create a choose-your-own-adventure kind of life.
Whether that’s embarking upon a new path in your career or life journey, or taking off-the-beaten-path adventures abroad or in your own backyard.
The Way Fly challenges you to try something new, gain courage and confidence, and experience the freedom to write your own best life.
In this blog, you’ll find inspirational stories, outdoor and travel guides, and helpful resources to help you dream up and take off on your own adventures.
Follow your nose, and get ready to spread your wings!
Overlooking the Mediterranean sea from the Picasso Museum in Antibes, France during a solo backpacking journey from Spain to Turkey.
LESS DOUBT, MORE DO.
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Me V. The Metro Bus
In this story about a miraculous recovery from a one-on-one collision with a Metro bus, thewayfly makes a critical pivot, goes airborne, and lands on her feet again. What are you made of when the sh*$t! hits the fan?
Hike the Cinque Terre Coastal Trail
Hike along Italy’s Cinque Terre’s dizzying coastal hike with dazzling views of the Mediterranean Sea! Meet fellow solo female travelers at a local backpacker’s hostel, find a hiking buddy, and make a friend for life. Celebrate a rigorous and rewarding 8-mile mountainous hike with a delicious dinner on the sea.
Geocache Hike in Granada
Go on an adventure with Thewayfly as she travels off-the-beaten path through the Sierra Nevada foothills in Southern Spain. Make friends with a German exchange student and join him on a geocache treasure hunt. Rely on your own spatial instincts and your hiking buddy to chart a new path back to Granada.
Little Red Vespa through Tuscany
Scoot off with The Way Fly as she adventures by little red Vespa through the Tuscan countryside. Navigate by good old-fashioned paper maps and spatial instincts to find a small castle town and meet two delightful Italian men, one who gives you a cappuccino and the other who gives you a tour of his castle!
Learn to Fly
A true story about how taking up a new challenging hobby—learning to fly—gave one woman the boost of confidence and courage needed to make big life changes and reconnect with her internal compass. Bust out of your comfort zone and find inspiration to live your dreams.
Hummingbirds
Some people begin a new hobby or pursuit and master it. Others move from one interest to the next to fulfill a sudden and maybe brief curiosity. Daring to do something new pushes you outside of your comfort zone and shows you what you’re capable of.
Coffee with Hairdressers
In this short story about one life chapter ending and a new one about to begin, thewayfly finds some cash in an old travel purse and buys herself some perspective (and pastries) at the local coffee shop. Who better to discuss a new look or new life with than your...
Sink, Swim, or Float
After the graduation party confetti settles, what’s next? A story about taking the important time to rest, reflect, and reconnect with yourself before embarking upon a new life chapter. Sometimes we just need to stop doing and simply be to hear our own hearts again...
Signpost in the Desert
Thewayfly learns to listen to the inner whispers and nudges pulling her life in a brand new direction. While hot-spring hopping through the Southwestern desert, she takes a blazing shooting star as a clear sign that life is about to change in a big, beautiful way....
Flowers for Hours
Sometimes in life, we find ourselves in the ‘in-between’. Taking on a fun part-time job could be just what you need to pick up some extra perspective and cash. Grab your jean jacket and join thewayfly as she works alongside the Mother’s day rush crew in a midwestern...