A Thousand New Beginnings

50 Life-Altering Insights From The Web’s Favorite Travel Muse

Kristin Addis encourages you to ditch your 9-5 job and needy boyfriend and with her words, illuminates the importance of getting to know other cultures, experiencing the world, and traveling independently.
Jane Drinkard
July 13, 2016
“Out of fear, I held onto what was easy and familiar for years even though it was at odds with what my soul longed to do – I wanted to be free.”
— Kristin Addis, A Thousand New Beginnings: Tales of Solo Female Travel Through Southeast Asia
Tagged: travel, Fear, Freedom, Female Solo Travel
“All I have ever really wanted out of the world is to see the whole of it.”
— Kristin Addis, A Thousand New Beginnings: Tales of Solo Female Travel Through Southeast Asia
Tagged: See The World, Travel The World, travel
“I’m kind of shocked at how little I really need to be happy. Is this what traveling does to people? I think so.”
— Kristin Addis, A Thousand New Beginnings: Tales of Solo Female Travel Through Southeast Asia
Tagged: Happiness, travel
“We skirt the issue of tomorrow and with every passing day, when each sunset lights up the sky, we pretend that the shelf life this has doesn’t exist.”
— Kristin Addis, I Could Love You, But I Love The Road Too
Tagged: travel, Love, Life, road, Journey, Relationships, Free, Spirit
“You see, I could love you, but I love the road, too.”
— Kristin Addis, I Could Love You, But I Love The Road Too
Tagged: Love, travel, road, trip, Life, Free Spirit
“You see, the lovely thing about you is the person who you are right here, without the pressures of real life and the stress of where the next paycheck will come from.”
— Kristin Addis, I Could Love You, But I Love The Road Too
Tagged: Love, travel, road, trip, Life, Free Spirit
“I might know that you love Metallica thanks to Spotify but I may never know your Sunday morning routine.”
— Kristin Addis, We’re Just Damaged Goods Looking For Love
Tagged: Love, travel, Life, Free Spirit, vulnerability
“If we end it right in the throes of infatuation, remembering it only for the nights entangled in romance and lust, before there could be any complications or hurt pride,
then we’ll both be safe.”
— Kristin Addis, We’re Just Damaged Goods Looking For Love
Tagged: Love, travel, Life, Free Spirit, vulnerability
“It’s a pretty American thing to say, ‘We should totally hang out again sometime,’ without meaning it one iota.”
— Kristin Addis, 8 Things About The United States That Seriously Confuse People From Everywhere Else
Tagged: Americans, Americans and Friendship, Idiosyncrasies of Americans
“I have learned that if I want a real opinion on something, I have to ask my German friends, because they will tell it to me straight.”
— Kristin Addis, 8 Things About The United States That Seriously Confuse People From Everywhere Else
Tagged: Germany, Straight Shooting Germans
“Maybe those around you expressed concern or tried to talk you out of it, because the idea of a girl traveling on her own still, unfortunately, draws some skepticism.”
— Kristin Addis, 13 Questions All Solo Female Travelers Are So Tired Of Answering
Tagged: Womanhood, Fearless, female, travel, Life, Opportunity, Free Spirit, Wanderlust
“Each time I walk into a hostel I make five new friends, each time a local takes interest in why I’m alone, I get invited to a family dinner or a cool local ceremony.”
— Kristin Addis, 13 Questions All Solo Female Travelers Are So Tired Of Answering
Tagged: Womanhood, Fearless, female, travel, Life, Opportunity, Free Spirit, Wanderlust
“These days I spend more time in countries that are statically safer by a long-shot than the USA, so by leaving home I am actually decreasing the chances of something sinister happening.”
— Kristin Addis, 13 Questions All Solo Female Travelers Are So Tired Of Answering
Tagged: Womanhood, Fearless, female, travel, Life, Opportunity, Free Spirit, Wanderlust
“I don’t see ‘settling down’ as the end goal for my life. Maybe I’ll get married and have children and maybe I won’t.”
— Kristin Addis, 13 Questions All Solo Female Travelers Are So Tired Of Answering
Tagged: Womanhood, Fearless, female, travel, Life, Opportunity, Free Spirit, Wanderlust
“I am still a successful woman even if I’m not married.”
— Kristin Addis, In Defense Of Single Women Who Travel
Tagged: Womanhood, Single, travel, Free Spirit, Success, Society
“When I join a local ceremony, hitchhike across a country, or learn how to ski, do I really need a counterpart there to legitimize that, to legitimize me?”
— Kristin Addis, In Defense Of Single Women Who Travel
Tagged: Womanhood, Single, travel, Free Spirit, Success, Society
“Why can’t being single and free be as valuable and respected as the role of a mother or wife?”
— Kristin Addis, In Defense Of Single Women Who Travel
Tagged: Womanhood, Single, travel, Free Spirit, Success, Society
“I think I’m better off spending my time in a relationship with myself, out exploring the world, becoming more in tune with the person who I will most definitely never break up with – me.”
— Kristin Addis, In Defense Of Single Women Who Travel
Tagged: Womanhood, Single, travel, Free Spirit, Success, Society
“The point of hitchhiking is not just to get a free ride, but rather because of the guarantee that it will be an experience completely out of the unknown.”
— Kristin Addis, This Woman Hitchhiked Around the World (And Lived to Tell the Tale)
Tagged: hitchhiking, travel, Womanhood, Experiences, Life
“Eye flirt with the fancy vodka.”
— Kristin Addis, 51 Stages Of International Flying Every Global Traveler Knows All Too Well
Tagged: travel, flights, Flying, Womanhood, Lifestyle, Wanderlust, humor
“The place to find the perfect out-of-the-box thinkers, problem solvers, and movers and shakers is the arrivals hall at an international airport.”
— Kristin Addis, 8 Reasons People Who Travel Make The Best Employees
Tagged: travel, Wanderlust, Success, Life, Lifestyle, Free Spirit, Career, inspiration
“Corporations negotiate with millions and travelers do so with dollars and cents – volume is really the only difference.”
— Kristin Addis, 8 Reasons People Who Travel Make The Best Employees
Tagged: travel, Wanderlust, Success, Life, Lifestyle, Free Spirit, Career, inspiration
“Anyone who travels also understands that this world is impossibly big while being surprisingly small and interconnected all at the same time. We’re humbled by what we’ve seen, and we know full-well that we’re not the biggest fish in the sea.”
— Kristin Addis, 8 Reasons People Who Travel Make The Best Employees
Tagged: travel, Wanderlust, Success, Life, Lifestyle, Free Spirit, Career, inspiration
“Traveling shows us that we have more similarities with people from other cultures than differences, that the world isn’t that scary after all, and that people are fundamentally good.”
— Kristin Addis, 22 Ways Traveling Alone Changes You For The Better
Tagged: travel, self, inspiration, Wanderlust, World, Earth, Culture, humanity
“When you know a lot about the world, you can positively and intelligently contribute to conversations about art, politics, and leisure.”
— Kristin Addis, 22 Ways Traveling Alone Changes You For The Better
Tagged: travel, self, inspiration, Wanderlust, World, Earth, Culture, humanity
“One of the biggest regrets of the dying is not being true to and taking more time for themselves.”
— Kristin Addis, 22 Ways Traveling Alone Changes You For The Better
Tagged: travel, self, inspiration, Wanderlust, World, Earth, Culture, humanity
“Each local experience has the potential to open your world even further, allowing space for new belief systems and ways of sharing meals, spirituality, and methods of daily life that were previously mysteries.”
— Kristin Addis, The Five People You Meet When Traveling Alone
Tagged: Experience, travel, Life, local, Love, practice, system, Beliefs, Wanderlust
“As for me, sometimes I’m so deliriously happy that I could cry. If I saw you again I would hug you, just to thank you for walking away.”
— Kristin Addis, An Open Letter To The One Who Got Away
Tagged: one who got away, Life, Love, Relationships, travel, letter, forgiveness
“It’s strange how someone who was once my best friend became a total stranger.”
— Kristin Addis, An Open Letter To The One Who Got Away
Tagged: one who got away, Life, Love, Relationships, travel, letter, forgiveness
“You see, if it had worked out the way the storybook fantasy played out in my head, I wouldn’t have met nearly as many new people as I have since you and I cut ties, each of whom has contributed in a small or huge way to my life.”
— Kristin Addis, An Open Letter To The One Who Got Away
Tagged: one who got away, Life, Love, Relationships, travel, letter, forgiveness