New Year Musings About Travel, Energy, Faith and Purpose
AND...Open registration for the next Curated Journey to Europe is 10 days away!
First Come, First Served Early Bird Registration
Watch this space in the coming days for all the details about Big Story Living’s third Curated Journey offering, coming your way in November of 2024. It’s the highlight of the year! This eight month experience (once per month via Zoom) will teach you all the ins and outs of traveling the world for almost free. You’ll learn how to gather and use frequent flyer miles, how to create a budget-friendly European itinerary, how to choose lodging and transportation on a budget, and how to move with confidence in a foreign country, all while keeping one eye on the world and the other eye on Jesus as you choose. New friends from all over the US will meet in person for the first time in London for a 13-day grand adventure together. As a group we choose our locations and travel together, but the best part is…every day is your very own. Do with them as you choose, from breakfast to bedtime.
Substack subscribers get first dibs at early registration!
The last two journeys filled in less than two weeks.
With only 10 spots available, subscribers will get the first opportunity to claim a space on February 8. A newsletter will let you know that registration is open.
Join us! If you follow BSL advice, your entire journey - EVERYTHING - will cost well under $2000.
New Year Musings
Does anyone else struggle with having a deep desire to create something that is authentically and beautifully YOU to share with the world in a space (Instagram, FB, etc.) that dictates, without your permission, all the things you have to do and the money you must spend in order to share it...thus, sidetracking your energy and taking the joy from your offering? Do you ever just want to throw your hands up and keep it all to yourself? I do.
But I keep discovering that, despite the challenges, I simply can’t keep all that rumbles to myself.
In 2024, I want Big Story Living to be a safe space, living and breathing in a media world that wants everything from all of us. My hope is for Big Story Living to be different...to be a gift...an offering...an inspiration...a new way.
Every day, I am keenly aware that I have no ability on my own to “be known” without playing the algorithm/promotion game on social media. To defer might sink me as a business.
But let’s be real.
Is this thing a business?
Big Story Living is me - Amy
And the idea of BSL is that behind its handle is the greatest and purest expression of myself that I have to offer the world.
Traveling with one eye on the world and the other eye on Jesus is a core value...it’s my way.
I Believe
I believe world travel is accessible...possible...worth it.
I believe in its ability to inspire, deepen, lighten, transform.
I believe in the freedom travel offers the soul and senses.
I believe in the depths of my soul that travel has the ability to draw myself profoundly deeper into my personal faith and you into yours.
I believe that saying “yes” to a journey can empower like nothing else. On journeys, perceptions change and stories deepen.
And I guess you could say that Big Story Living is my expression of living all of this out daily in the town square while offering to bring others along for the journey.
Big Story Living exists to make world travel affordable while inspiring wonder and faith as partners in the journey.
And so, in 2024, I’ll keep living, sharing and inspiring, offering exciting journeys and teaching budget travel more than ever before.
I will sit here at this computer and think of you each day for as long as it feels right. And I’ll hope each offering is a gift you enjoy and freely receive on whatever day my musings happen to find you on the information superhighway.
But I will resist the rabbit hole of self promotion in a space that is not friendly to realistic time and energy. I’m going to honor my capacity...and yours as we go, believing that when I do release my heart and soul into the universe, those intended to experience its touch will be gathered.
Cheers to 2024 and to authentically journeying together.
Happy Travels!
Amy