I've always talked about this concept of having something in one's life that is done just for the pure love of it. It's not your job, you don't make or have to make money off of it. It's just your thing, with no expectations put on you by anyone else. Hobbies, passions. The word for it is called "autotelic". Once a year I devote a week to studying photography under a photographer I admire. That week is this week, in San Miguel de Allende. Never stop learning. And always maintain something that is autotelic. | Pro Tip: trade Day of the Dead (crowded) for the more local/less touristic St Michaels celebration 1 month before.

Paris, Champagne, Burgundy. All gorgeous spots to visit and revisit. When Ohio-based clients needed to get from this region up to Amsterdam and had the time to explore a new-to-them city between, Antwerp was easy to roll off the tongue as my recommendation to them during planning. An absolute culinary and design/aesthetics hot spot, that not many know the coolness of. Yet. | Where to Stay: Botanic Sanctuary.