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Ciamara tha thu, Lassie! (How are you?)

Sometimes you don’t have to travel far to be in another country—or at least feel like it.

Jeannie Ralston and friends spent a weekend in Boone and Blowing Rock, NC, and discovered the area’s famous Highland Games were happening nearby. She was transported back to the two trips NextTribe has led in fabulous Scotland. “The kilts. The bagpipes.The haggis. It was amazing,” she says. Fortuitously, she had packed her Scotland hat for the trip and looked like she truly belonged “The most useful souvenir I’ve ever bought,” she says..

After a happy hour with our Colorado members in Denver last week, Jeannie Edmunds spent a couple of nights in Boulder with two friends she hadn’t seen in several decades: her college roommate on the left, and a mutual friend from the 1970s in Austin!

They spent a cozy afternoon feeling transported to Central Asia in the Dushanbe Tea House. The mayor of Dushanbe (the capital of Tajikistan) and Boulder’s sister city, hired 40 Tajik artisans who carved, painted and then disassembled and shipped this beautiful tea house as a gift to the people of Boulder. Jeannie had been there several times with her mom, who used to live nearby in Longmont. When this tea house first opened in 1987 her mom had made a beeline over there to meet the owner and say a few words in Tajik, since she’d lived in Dushanbe for a few months.

Where have you been locally that makes you feel like you’re in another country? Please respond to this email and let us know. And send pics!

Enjoy the reads!

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And from the archives, an article about losing something on purpose!

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Happy shopping, and safe travels—

Jeannie Ralston, CEO + Jeannie Edmunds, Chief Operating Officer

Booking Deadline Coming Up

Hair down. Sari on. Women our age. Let's go slow on purpose.

Most tours of India are a sprint — a blur of temples and must-see cities that leave you overstimulated and clutching a mental scrapbook you'll spend months sorting out. That is emphatically not the NextTribe way.

Instead of racing through India, we slow all the way down into Kerala — our favorite corner of the country, and one of the most quietly ravishing places on earth. Misty tea plantations. Mountain vistas. Elephant-dotted forests. Sunset over the Arabian Sea. A labyrinth of backwater canals that feel like they're letting you in on a secret.

We'll sit with local women who share their art, their crafts, and the honest, intimate details of their lives. This isn't sightseeing. It's the real thing.

Bookings close Aug. 31st!

All the details here.

Upcoming Trip Preview and After Party!

Want the skinny on what a NextTribe trip is like? Join the after-party for this year’s Croatia trip (released to members tomorrow and to the public next Friday) and watch travelers give their unvarnished feedback live! Bring your questions and see what types of women travel with us. We think you’ll want to come next year!

July 28, 6:30 PM EDT Croatia After Party. RSVP Here

And if you’re curious about our trip to Egypt in 2027, sign up for our trip preview, where our founder and the trip leader Jeannie Ralston will answer all your questions, plus you’ll meet other women interested in the trip. Maybe you’ll find a travel buddy!

August 4, 2:00 PM EDT Egypt Trip Preview RSVP Here