Jen Rose Smith

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Jen Rose Smith

Mei Zhang grew up amid the emerald-cloaked mountains of Yunnan, China, where an old joke mentions that the gorges were so narrow, and their slopes so steep, that you could shout across the valleys to ask your nearest neighbors to dinner. The punchline—in a region where walking paths were the only links between some rural homes—is that it would stilltake them all day to arrive.

3 weeks ago | nationalgeographic.com | Jen Rose Smith

Mei Zhang grew up amid the emerald-cloaked mountains of Yunnan, China, where an old joke mentions that the gorges were so narrow, and their slopes so steep, that you could shout across the valleys to ask your nearest neighbors to dinner. The punchline—in a region where walking paths were the only links between some rural homes—is that it would stilltake them all day to arrive.

1 month ago | wsj.com | Jen Rose Smith

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1 month ago | afar.com | Jen Rose Smith

Eileen Jacobowitz wasn’t trying to avoid men. She was looking for an adventure, a trip to mark her daughter’s recent college graduation. But when the pair flipped through a catalog from adventure-focused tour company Backroads, a women-only hiking trip exploring Banff and the Canadian Rockies intrigued them both. “All of my photos look fake because it was so beautiful,” says Jacobowitz, 59, of last year’s mother-daughter journey. She liked the vibe just as much as the views.

2 months ago | afar.com | Jen Rose Smith

After 41 years in a laboratory in the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs, Jane Vetter wanted more than a retirement party. She wanted to go big; she was looking for a celebration, but also a pivot. “It was marking the end of that chapter in my life, and starting a new one,” Vetter said of the journey she took to Turks and Caicos after retiring in March 2023. She invited her kids and their partners for a vacation that would be her “retirementmoon.”It’s not just retirees, like Vetter.