My last kid moved out in 2024. I bought a road atlas two days later.
I'm Jordan Reed. I'm 52, I live in Phoenix, and I spent 25 years making everyone else's plans happen. Coordinating family trips, work schedules, other people's priorities. Last year I looked up and realized I'd never once planned a trip just for myself.
So I did. I drove to Sedona alone on a Friday afternoon with no itinerary, no compromises, and nobody to argue with about where to eat. I was back Sunday night. I'd already started planning the next one before I unpacked.
Untamesticated is where I document everything I find out. The trips I've researched obsessively, the costs I've broken down to the dollar, the routes that work and the ones that don't. I'm not a travel expert. I'm a woman in her 50s who figured out she'd been waiting for permission that was never coming.
You don't need my permission either. But you're welcome to steal my research.
Three steps to your next road trip.
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