Practicing the Art of Not Giving a F**K

Free-flowing look inside my brain

Sara Burdick
4 min readFeb 12, 2024
Beautiful Mural in Tibasosa, Colombia

Last year, I started a Substack Newsletter named Notes From the Road. Intentionally naming, I often write about my experiences while traveling.

Plus, it is free to those of you who are not Medium members (hint: go to my substack; I am slowly moving all my articles there and eventually will write articles just for Substack. Once it has more readers, of course, 😜).

I will write about a place I am visiting or living in, but I am not one to tell you what to do or see. Sometimes, if I visit a place and enjoy something, I recommend you visit.

Yet, the listicles and top 10 places to visit while traveling are torturous to write about. I do not enjoy them, and if I read them, I skim over what the author has written and only want the names of a place. Instead, I would write about one place at a time and how I felt, what I saw, and what I loved about it vs the previous.

Yet I know thousands of bloggers focus on listicles because they are popular, they get read, and in turn, the blogger receives ad revenue when you are on their page. I could make a PDF of places for you to visit in Colombia; that is more tangible to me.

But yes, Note From the Road.

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Sara Burdick

I quit the rat race after working as a nurse for 16 years. Travel and Storyteller. I live in Colombia. https://linktr.ee/saraaliceburdick