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Sunday Edition: Sometimes You Just Have to Get on a Flight to See Your Best Friend

Onto the next adventure! ✈️

Jul 12, 2026
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The Sunday Edition is Tuesday’s little sister—off-the-cuff updates I’d bring up over a coffee catch-up with a friend.

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The day before I left for Montana, one of my best friends Betsy sent me a link to a surf resort in Costa Rica. Maybe in the fall? she texted. Famous last words. We live thousands of miles apart, so it’s hard for us to resist any opportunity to travel together…

Issue #160: A Recap of My Trip to Uluwatu and Lombok with My Best Friend

Issue #160: A Recap of My Trip to Uluwatu and Lombok with My Best Friend

Leslie Stephens
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September 10, 2024
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Within an hour, we’d determined that we both had a week-long window the following month—so we booked it! This means that from the moment I pulled back home into my driveway this week, I’ve been running around unpacking the van, tending to house to-dos, returning to strength classes, petting Toast, seeing friends, taking meetings (which I’d stacked this week for my return) and repacking for an international trip! (On my first day back, my Oura ring asked if I had perhaps been for a five-hour run? Nope, just running around my house.) Not to mention a completely unhinged work week and the fact that I’m currently enrolled in two online courses: a business class and writing class taught by Chloé Caldwell (!).

Summer is often a generative, wild time for me and this one is no different!

I’ll have to work quite a bit from Costa Rica, but I’m also so excited to live in a bikini, get some surfing in, and have a solid week with a true soul sister. Updates to come!

For now, here are a few photos from my week at home—if I look a bit exhausted and crazed and happy all at once, well that’s because I am! See you back here Tuesday! x

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