The Travel world
Travel
Destination stories, honest notes, and beautiful planning tools for seeing more of the world without losing yourself in the logistics.
Plan my trip
A first draft shaped around how you actually travel.
Share your destination, dates, pace, budget, interests, and non-negotiables. The Iris The Travel PT Advisor will build a flexible day-by-day structure without pretending changing hours or prices are guaranteed.
Destination discovery
Start with a place, then find your way through it.
These are not generic bucket lists. Each destination brings together Iris’s experiences, practical logistics, and room to build a trip that feels like yours.
South Korea
Soft days, solo nights, beauty stops, and a winter itinerary.
Build a Korea trip from real pacing notes, neighborhood ideas, arrival-day lessons, and the details Iris would plan again.
Explore Korea
China
Shanghai, Chengdu, and Chongqing—with the apps and logistics first.
A planning-forward guide for the cities, systems, and moments that made the trip work.
Explore China
Featured journey
Three weeks in Korea, while keeping up with online classes.
The story behind the trip: how Iris thought about pace, school, solo time, and the small experiences that made the itinerary feel personal.
See how Iris did it → Make it yours
Iris’s Korea itinerary
Use the route, change the rhythm.
- Begin with Iris’s winter route and pacing
- Keep the parts that match your priorities
- Adjust for your dates, energy, and budget
Your version
Turn a real trip into your starting point.
Use Iris’s itinerary as a reference, then open the planner to make choices around your own travel style.
Travel Planner
From “somewhere, someday” to a first draft you can actually edit.
Choose a destination, trip length, and travel style. The planner gives you a starting structure, then keeps the decisions in your hands.
Destination guides
Useful details, edited with a traveler’s eye.
My Seoul reset-day itinerary
A softer day for arrival fatigue, overstimulation, or simply wanting less.
Shanghai solo travel guide
What felt easy, what took planning, and what was worth it.
China apps to set up before you go
The digital logistics that are easier to handle before departure.
Travel money + points
Spend with intention. Learn the value before chasing the points.
Educational tools for comparing redemptions, planning trip costs, and understanding tradeoffs. Not individualized financial advice.
Latest travel stories
Student travel choices, housing logistics, and honest trip tradeoffs.
Planning the actual trip?
Build a first-pass itinerary around pace and energy.
Use the advisor to sketch the trip structure, then protect the recovery side if a long flight is part of the plan.
From the travel journal
Trips, routes & the stories around them.
Recent trips
September 4, 2026 – September 7, 2026
Labor Day Rhode Island + Maine Road Trip
- New York
- Newport, Rhode Island
- Kennebunkport / coastal Maine
- Portland, Maine
- New York
The personal recap is still in preparation.
Upcoming trips
March 19, 2027 – April 3, 2027
Bolivia Global Health Elective
- La Paz
Planned travel; no published recap yet.
Itineraries
Hotels & stays
DPT school + travel
- How I Did Korea Solo for 3 Weeks (With Online Classes)
- My Complete South Korea Winter Itinerary
- My China Itinerary: Shanghai, Chengdu, and Chongqing
- How I Traveled While in DPT School
- My Seoul Reset Day Itinerary for a Soft Solo Travel Day
- Korea Arrival Day Guide: How I Reset After a Long-Haul Flight
- Solo Nights in Seoul: What Felt Safe, What I Planned Ahead, and What I Skipped
- China Solo Travel Tips: What Helped Me Most in Shanghai, Chengdu, and Chongqing
- My Long-Haul Flight Recovery Routine as a DPT Student
- How I Decide What to Splurge On and Where to Save as a Student Traveler
Travel planning resources
Where I’ve been · recorded trip archive
1 completed trip recorded here. These are recorded trips, not lifetime totals.
- Kennebunkport / coastal Maine
- Newport, Rhode Island
- Portland, Maine
2026 · 1 recorded trip
2027 · 1 recorded trip