3 Summer Road Trip Ideas for a Season of Adventure
This summer, pack up the car and take a road trip! The warm weather is the perfect time to explore and take in new sights. Road trips are sure to d...
Solo Backpacking Tips + Trips for Beginners
For the uninitiated, backpacking is the process of hiking long distances over the course of multiple days or weeks. Think hiking the Appalachian Tr...
Best Places to Solo Travel This Summer
I used to think I needed another person to share moments with, but solo traveling helped me become comfortable with being alone. It taught me...
8 Camping Safety Tips from Solo Female Travelers
Camping solo as a woman can be a liberating experience. It might afford you some much-needed introspection time, or it might just be a fun way to s...
How Traveling Alone Can Change Your Life
Out of all the things I’ve ever done, traveling alone is by far one of the best. In many ways, we’re taught — women especially — that trave...
How To Date Yourself This Summer
Each summer is an opportunity to make memories with friends and loved ones. But sometimes, the best memories to make are the ones we make with ours...
The Best Places for Family-Friendly Vacations on a Budget
Who among us isn’t nursing an intense jones for a rejuvenating vacation? After the two-plus years we’ve experienced, a well-earned respite —...
She Traveled America in a Van Interviewing Nomads. Here’s What She Learned.
UPDATE: Jessica Bruder's book Nomadland was the big winner at the 2021 Golden Globes, as the movie version of the book took home Best Picture,...
5 Best Mountain Towns To Visit This Summer
Many travelers will flock to beaches during the summer, but mountain towns offer a different, more refreshing kind of reprieve. For starters, the...
Three Days of Southern Charm in Nashville's Big Back Yard
A new spot has emerged on the vacation scene called Nashville’s Big Back Yard, and this stretch between Muscle Shoals, Alabama, and Nashville, Te...
Sisterhood Through Space and Time
Kaitlin was my “rush crush,” an affectionate term sororities use to label potential sisters early on in the process. She sparkled with wit and...
Cruising Through Colorado: Your Guide to The Ultimate Road Trip
There is something about summer that makes you want to cruise down an open road with your closest girlfriends as you take in the sights and blast y...
6 Themed Hotels To WOW You
When we travel, we want to be wowed. Be it by the sites or our hotels – our vacay dopamine hit is completely reliant on our environment. So, how...
6 Nature Exploration Tools To Spark Kids’ Curiosity and Get Them Outside
There are numerous physical, mental, and socio-emotional benefits to getting children outside. Spending time in nature helps to relieve stress, dev...
7 of America’s Most Beautiful Places in Spring
Budding flowers, baby animals, and sunny days are just a few reasons why spring can be the best season for traveling. While there are many places i...
Catch Island Fever With Your Girlfriends at Hilton Head and Daufuskie Islands
A girlfriend getaway is always a good idea, and a getaway to an island is even better. But a getaway to two islands? Well, that’s just a double s...
Cultural, Affordable, Immersive Experiences in French Polynesia
Tired of the party vibe she had seen on the island and with a decade of experience as a woman boat captain under her belt, Cindy Otcenasek decided...
5 Family-Friendly Adventures in California Wine Country
While beach vacations and Disney resorts are familiar options for family getaways, there are others that are not as obvious. California wine countr...
Heeding the Call of the Open Road and Reclaiming a Sense of Normalcy
Last summer, my son and I went on a camping trip to Bryce Canyon in Utah — the only trip we took the entire year—to meet my good friends from t...
This Epic College Prank Isn't Possible Today
Once upon a time, we lived in a world without cellphones and instant gratification. Friendships were based on face-to-face encounters and bonding w...
This Storyteller Writes About Adventurous, Inspiring Women
At CircleAround, we love highlighting empowering women whose passions, strengths, and skills inspire young girls everywhere. That's why we were so...
6 Fun Hotels Located in the Heart of Mardi Gras
While there’s never a wrong time to experience the mouthwatering soul food and lively jazz scene in New Orleans, visiting during Mardi Gras offer...
How a Baseball Fan Took Her Love of the Dodgers to Start a Movement Around Women and Sports
Growing up in Los Angeles, Danielle Wong remembers always being tuned in to a Dodgers game at her home. It either played on TV or on the radio with...
Five Vacations To Take in Florida That Don’t Involve Disney World
Contrary to popular belief, there’s a lot to do in Florida that doesn’t involve Disney World or partying on South Beach. The state is home to h...
My Summer Travel Essentials (and How They’ve Changed)
Coming from a family that never misses a summer vacation trip together, it’s been a year of adjustment. After staying home with travel restrictio...
Meet the 82-Year-Old Who Just Became the Oldest Person in Space
Wally Funk is 82 years old and she just became the oldest person ever to travel to space. On Tuesday, Funk joined Amazon founder and billionaire Je...
Need Hot Vax Summer Girl Trip Ideas? Why Not Check Out the Woods in Woodstock
After more than a year of quarantining at home away from your friends, you may be itching to go on your first post-vaccination vacation. But, a lot...
A Star Wars Lover's Dream Vacation to Italy
What seemed like a lifetime ago, I planned the bucket-list birthday trip of many an Xennial’s dreams for my Star Wars-loving boyfriend. We w...
How to Use Instagram to Plan Your Next trip
Instagram can be an especially helpful tool when it comes to planning a vacation. It can be used to create itineraries, curate images of places you...
Dispatches from Belgrade: I Want a Splav
When I planned my first trip to Serbia, I read about a part of the nightlife culture that takes place on the water. There is a network of floating...
Dreaming of the Dominican Republic
I miss clapping with strangers once the plane lands, and the humidity puffing up my fresh salon blowout the moment I walk out of the airport. I mis...
Dispatches from Belgrade: I Miss Taco Bell
“Do you miss anything from your home?” my Serbian friends often ask me. I have been trying to relocate to Europe for so long that, when I’m h...
I Moved to a Foreign Country During the Pandemic
At the beginning of 2020, I was going through a divorce, had just been furloughed at my job, and was navigating the “new normal” of a world undergoing a pandemi
Why Now Is the Best Time to Reinvent Yourself
I think we can all say that 2020 has been one helluva year. Right from the get-go, I rang in New Year's Eve 2020 by almost getting into an argument with a secu
NASA to Send First Woman to Moon in 2024
NASA is planning to send a woman to the moon for the first time ever. The space agency unveiled its Artemis Plan last month, which includes explana...
Travel Lessons You Can Apply Even When You're Not Traveling
Scrolling through amazing travel pics on Instagram might make you nostalgic for the days we used to be able to move around the world without worry...
Freedom to Fly
To honor American independence and July 4, CircleAround is collaborating all month long with NAWBO (the National Association of Women Bus...
Liberty to Move 10,000 Miles to a New Home
To honor American independence and July 4, CircleAround is collaborating all month long with NAWBO (the National Association of Women Business Owne...
Connecting Black Americans to the Outdoors
It’s terrifying. But when you’re in your truth, there’s an urgency that cannot be denied.
Take a Leap of Faith and That New Job
After a few months of living with my parents post-graduation as I interviewed for job after job, I excitedly picked up the phone when a San Diego a...
