On-demand trip support from real travelers.
Meet Mat and Trevi, , a blended family of 5 who share their passion of exploring the world together.
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The Adventure Buddies aim to
inspire, educate and share their experiences with others.
We can’t wait to chat about:
💯 Maximizing your next adventure
✨ Traveling as a blended family
🌴 Low budget tips and tricks
📲Meet us on IG ✨Live✨Thursday, December 22nd at 11 AM PST / 2 PM EST
“We all must play our part in regenerating the Earth for future generations and recognize our responsibility for how our actions will affect the trajectory of our planet. Travel has the capacity to inspire transformation”
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Tune in tomorrow as we chat with Jenn () & Toby () about protecting and conserving our while traveling.
✨LIVE✨ Thursday, December 15th, 2022 11 AM PST/ 2 PM EST
✨Meet Jenn Brian () & Toby Matthews (), earth advocates and travelers. If you’re interested in hearing about their experiences diving with sharks 🦈, hiking glaciers or grizzly bears 🐻 you won’t want to miss this week’s guests.
These two are the ultimate:
👫🏻 adventure seekers
📸 travel photographers + videographers
🗺️ itenarary pros
I can’t wait to dive into their travels together and apart. 🌏🤿🏔️🥾🌊
📲 Meet us on IG ✨Live✨ Thursday, December 15th at 11 AM PST / 2 PM EST
This week on , we are talking the importance of travel ♿🌍
Our co-pilot ✈️ this week is Jennifer Allen creator of ! Among the top ten disability travel blogs, Wonders Within Reach inspires and enables family travel for disabled people and raises awareness in the process.
🔍 How to find destinations
🌲 Exploring the outdoors with a
🗺️ trips for Disabled Families
📲 Meet us ✨LIVE✨this Thursday, December 8th at 11 AM PST / 2 PM EST.
After a week break, we're BACK for with a guest you don't want to miss. ‼️
Our co-pilot ✈️ is Alysse Dalessandro (), featured in , , , , , – and more!
Tune in this week to chat, ask questions, and find community in:
🤩Plus-size inspo
🌈 travel tips
🩸Life and travel with
📲Meet us on IG ✨Live✨Thursday, December 1st at 11 PST / 2 EST. Hit the "reminder" button and we'll see you there!
This week we’re diving into travel as a for good on this week’s episode of . 💪🏽
✈️ Our co-pilot this week is Janna Zinzi (), an expert and community builder for who centers her work around and of color.
Janna’s journey as an and writer, media , and converge with her love of for a conversation you won’t wanna miss.
P.S. Yes, we are gonna ask where she got these fabulous blue glasses! 🤩
📲 Meet us ✨LIVE✨this Thursday, November 17th at 11 AM PST / 2 PM EST.
On this week’s episode of we’re exploring the intersection of , , and social . ✨
✈️ Our co-pilot is Kareemah: a brilliant writer, content creator, and storyteller. With her account , she shares her travel adventures from a Muslim perspective. 🧡
Kareemah’s work has been featured in the & . 🔥
Join us ✨LIVE✨ tomorrow (Thursday) @ 11 am PT / 2 pm ET.
Oh My (Travel Podcast)! Have you heard? 😉
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✈️ Our co-pilots for this week’s episode are Jeanine & Martha: best friends, avid travelers, and creators of . 🎙️
Join us as we dive-in with Jeanine (pod host) and Martha (pod producer) about their…
🥇 Best off-the-beaten-path
👯♀️ Tips for epic trips with your
👟Top carry-on tips
🍹Favorite bars: Jeanine is an incredible , so we might get lucky and hear her recs, too!
📲 Meet us ✨LIVE✨ here on Instagram this Thursday, November 3rd at 11 am PST/ 2 pm EST — see you there! 🚀
✨Meet Anthony & Marlie Love, creators of Traveling While Black | Seattle (), and our co-pilots this week on . ✈️
The Loves travel to different locations and rate their experiences on a 5-point scale in their YouTube and TikTok series: Traveling While Black.
Their include:
⭐️How the drive/flight was
⭐️How much fun they had
⭐️How comfortable they feel as black people visiting for the first time
You can think of their ratings as a Modern Day . 📗
If you’re not familiar, the original Green Book served as an essential travel guide for African American travelers between 1936–1967, connecting communities and keeping folks safe during the segregation era in the United States.
In this week’s episode we’re chatting with about , the Loves’ favorite destinations, and answering your questions.
📲 Meet us LIVE this Thursday, October 27th at 11 am PST / 2 pm EST. See you soon. ✨
If you’re a and the thought of and taking trips make you anxious (because of course it does!) OR maybe you feel like you need to put travel aside while your kids are young… this week’s episode is for ✨you✨
✈️ Our co-pilot this week is Ana, creator of Monos Viajeros (). Ana is a travel coach passionate about helping parents reconnect with travel and see the world with their kids — especially mothers and new family travelers. 🧡
Ana will share more about her Travel Mom Mini-Course, her family travel stories, and navigating the various pieces, emotions, and logistics of traveling with kids. 🔀
📲 Meet us on IG Live Thursday, October 20th at 11 AM PST.
If you’re a and the thought of and taking trips make you anxious (because of course it does!) OR maybe you feel like you need to put travel aside while your kids are young… this week’s episode is for ✨you✨
✈️ Our co-pilot this week is Ana, creator of Monos Viajeros. Ana is a travel coach passionate about helping parents reconnect with travel and see the world with their kids — especially mothers and new family travelers. 🧡
We’re excited to talk about her Travel Mom Mini-Course, her family travel stories, and navigating the various pieces, emotions, and logistics of traveling with kids. 🔀
📲 Meet us on IG Live Thursday, October 20th at 11 AM PST.
✨Catch us LIVE Thursday (10/13) for this week’s episode.
Our ✈️ co-pilot is chatting with us about trips, travel, and life.
See you soon — drop your questions for Dre, below! ⬇️
If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to pack up your , work abroad, and travel through 29 countries with a child in tow… this one’s for you! 👀
If you’re curious to know more about digs around the world, this is also for you! 🧡
✈️ Our co-pilot this week is a Dre (). Her and her family have lived abroad for 8 years:
3 years in Jakarta, 🇮🇩
2 years in , UAE 🇦🇪 and
3 years in their current country of residence: Asuncion, 🇵🇾.
This January their travels will take them to their 30th country and 21st world heritage site. (It’ll be their daughter’s 30th country visited, too!)
We’re excited to hear about what it’s like to be a family, travel for work + adventure, and much more.
📲 Meet us on IG LIVE this Thursday, October 13th at 11:00 AM PST.
If you’re on a and are ready to travel, you won’t want to miss this week’s episode LIVE on Instagram. 🚀
Our co-pilot this week is Allyssa (), a passionate about making conscious, responsible travel accessible to more people. She currently resides in Puerto Rico. 🇵🇷📍
A part of the 🌈 travel community, Alyssa will share more with us about her experiences traveling, share tips, and answer your questions! 🧡
🧡 For those of us who know nurses are the true superheroes, this week’s conversation is going to be one you don’t want to miss!
✈️ This week’s co-pilot is Jay Quinn, a Critical Care ICU Nurse in the Air Force who loves all things beauty and travel.
On social media, takes her community along for global rides as she shares behind-the-scenes info about her ICU travel assignments, beauty routines while traveling, being on the front lines of the pandemic, and more.
📲 Meet us on IG Live (tomorrow!) Thursday, September 29th at 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET.
🧡 From North Carolina to beyond! This week’s Humans Who Travel guest is Upaway’s very own Mishana Sturdivant! Also known as , Mishana has built a career of showing others how to efficiently and safely travel – particularly solo.
✈️ Mishana has a passion for making travel accessible for everyone. She also creates content for Black women to choose luxury, freedom, joy, and ease through travel. When she isn’t supporting travelers as part of Upaway’s Happiness Team, Mishana is pursuing her MBA at NC State University. Join us to talk
about how her own travels have shaped the way Mishana explores abroad, how she confronts and overcomes challenges as a Black woman traveling solo, and her favorite travel tips.
📲 Meet us on IG Live Thursday, September 15th at 2:00 PM ET.
🧡 This week’s Humans Who Travel guest is 1/2 of a beautifully colorful traveling couple who have taken their community along for their multicultural and global life. If you’re curious about living part-time in the US, part-time in Sweden, and full-time traveling the globe, this week’s conversation is for you.
✈️ Our co-pilot this week is Lauren Aadland-Halling (she/they) from ! Lisa and Lauren are a married Swe-Cali couple, living in between Oskarshamn, Stockholm, and San Diego. Their YouTube channel with over 21K followers is full of their travel experiences, cultural differences with a dash of relationship and life advice. Join us to talk to Lauren about how cultural differences brought her and Lisa together, and how they now travel as a family with their son and we may even get into some farm misadventures!
📲 Meet us on IG Live Thursday, September 1st at 2:00 PM ET.
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Traveling with toys can feel weird at first, but you’re far from the only person who’s done it! These are our best tips for keeping things discrete and easy. 🧡
We want to know: What’s the weirdest, most unexpected incident you’ve ever experienced on a plane?
How often have you felt pressured to restrict what you eat, for fear that you’ll gain weight during your trip?
What if we told you that it’s okay to ✨ENJOY✨ your food, and that part of getting the most out of any travel experience is letting yourself have the full experience — including freedom to eat what you enjoy?
There is a powerful cultural message that tells us that weight gain is a failure to be avoided at all costs… but what if we allowed our bodies to simply exist as they are?
After all… they are a vessel for this amazing experience we call life! 🧡
Whether it’s before, during, or after your trip, consider that part of living life to the fullest is giving ourselves permission to enjoy the life we have. If dieting impacts your mental health and ability to enjoy life, it may not be what’s best for you after all.
Some food for thought! 🍕
🧡 Upaway’s happiness team is made of global travelers, and some of them who live abroad. If you’re interested in learning what it’s be a Black, Q***r, quadrilingual person living in Turkey, you won’t want to miss this week’s Humans Who Travel guest.
✈️ Our co-pilot this week is Keith Brooks! is a Black, q***r creative, traveler, writer, and artist currently living in İstanbul, Turkey. He also happens to be a member of our happiness team, helping tons of travelers avoid trip chaos here at Upaway. We’re excited to dig into how intersectionality impacts life as an expat, how to communicate effectively in new countries, and more.
📲 Meet us on IG Live Thursday, September 18th at 2:00 PM ET.
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A recent wave of “gender critical” hashtags on Twitter have called into question whether or not transgender people should be included in the LGBTQ+ community.
Some have gone so far as to begin referring to our community as the “LGB community,” erasing both transgender people and our collective history.
As a q***r-led company, we want to make our stance crystal clear: There is no LGB without the T. Transgender people have always been a part of this struggle, and they will always be included in our community.
Any attempt to erase the significant contributions trans people have made to our cultural and collective history is transphobia, plain and simple. And we won’t stand by it.
Vocal support of transgender people is, unfortunately, more important than ever. And our hope and expectation is that every business that had a rainbow logo during Pride month will continue to be vocally supportive of transgender people every month of the year.
To our trans siblings: We see you, we love you, and we will do everything in our power to fight for you.
But I just finished giving myself the pep talk! 😫
🧡 If there’s one thing we love more than travel, it’s our Upaway founder !
✈️ Kayla Glanville’s passion is creating mission-driven companies at the intersection of technology and human empathy. As the founder of Upaway, she's on a mission to make travel simple and accessible for everyone. When she isn’t leading our team of global travelers, she’s knitting or at home with her wife & dogs.
📲 We’ll see you aboard our IG Live TODAY at 2:00 PM ET.
Traveling with testosterone? We spoke with experts — including a TSA agent — to get clarity on the best way to transport your T.
Check this thread for advice and best practices. 🧵
❗️ Inform the TSA officer if you do not want your liquid medication to be screened by X-ray or opened. Additional steps will be taken to clear the liquid and you will undergo additional screening procedures including a pat-down and screening of other carry-on property.
➕ Carry a copy of your prescriptions in your carry-on, purse, or wallet when traveling.
➕ You cannot carry syringes without proof of their use. Keep injectable medications like insulin or testosterone physically on you when going through TSA.
➕ Keep syringes and medicines in the original packaging with the manufacturer's information — this helps airport security identify them easily.
➕ It can be helpful to tell the TSA agent that you have the prescription. Something along the lines of, “I have some medical supplies in here including syringes and testosterone.” Or “I have a prescription in this plastic bag.”
➕ Label items associated with your liquid medications. Keep all of your medical items together separately from the rest of your belongings for seamless access.
If something goes wrong, Upaway is here for you! Keep our number on hand: 213-545-0903. 📲
We're also happy to file a discrimination complaint on anyone's behalf. Please reach out to us if we can be of help. 🧡
Seat size isn’t just a matter of comfort. For disabled passengers and travelers of size, it’s an access issue. Anyone who flies — regardless of their body size or ability — should be able to fly without experiencing pain or humiliation. ♿️
When airlines refuse to accommodate all bodies, they are upholding a system that values some bodies over others. And that will never be socially just or okay in our book. 👊🏻
Is it just us? Shoutout to all the anxious travelers who are rattled by turbulence — we know the feeling all too well. 🙈
Repeat after us: Disabled people deserve better. 👏🏻
🧡 If you love travel hacks and tips that you can really use when you’re heading to popular destinations, you’re going to love this week’s Humans Who Travel guest!
✈ Our fifth co-pilot Mark Wolters! is an award winning educator and travel vlogger. He runs the successful Wolter World travel vlog with 900,000 subscribers and over 200,000,000 views. He is a Teaching associate professor of Business Administration at the Gies College of Business at the
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.
📲 We’ll see you aboard our IG Live TODAY at 2:00 PM ET.
🧡 We’re back TOMORROW with more Humans Who Travel!
✈️ Our fourth co-pilot will be Ami King! is a Black q***r & trans creator, mindset coach, and advocate in the Black q***r travel space. After now living in 5 countries in Latin America for 1.5 years, he has found his path to joy and liberation and supports folx in finding their best and most fulfilling lives abroad. Follow them on Instagram and Twitter .
📲 We’ll see you aboard our IG Live TOMORROW (Thursday, July 28) at 2:00 PM ET.
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As #travelers and community #visitors, we have an opportunity to leave each destination better than when we arrived and carry a positive legacy with our exploration through #regenerative tourism. 🌱 Whether you’re looking for tips for a more #eco-friendly journey, want to find local #volunteer opportunities, or simply are curious to learn more about thoughfully building new communities – your Upaway team can help with that. 🧡 Join us ✨LIVE✨ this Thursday, December 15th at 11 AM PST / 2 PM EST with Jennifer Brian (@jennbrian808) & Toby Matthews (@tobymatthews) as they #inspire us through their many #adventures, #vegan eats and passion #responsible, regenerative travel.
WOAH, THIS IS BIG NEWS! Starting in 2024, due to new 3D technology, the 100ml/ 3.4oz limit for liquid in your carry on when flying will be a no more. If you’re excited about this, drop a 🎉 in the comments! Full content credit to: wadzisworld and mvpgabex on Tik Tok ✨
Even better when it makes it out of the group chat and into the Upaway app for optimized organization. 🙌 Have you joined the waitlist yet? Click the link in our bio and stay tuned for the app that allows you to store *all* your travel details in one place and gives you 24/7 trip support 📲
While June may be over, we celebrate #Pride year round. Our founder @kayla_glanville shares how her experience as a queer woman & traveler influenced her idea to launch Upaway. 🏳️🌈🧡✈️
Every good story begins with inspiration from badass womxn backpacking through new countries… or at least that’s how Courtney Vondran‘s story began 😆 We got to chat with @courtneytheexplorer about her adventures as a solo traveler and how her perspective has changed the way she travels since coming out. 🧡🏳️🌈✈️
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