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Research Travel Planning for Writers
Research travel planning shaped around your project, your pace, and how you work. What's included and who it's for.
Travel That Goes Deeper
For writers, researchers, and curious travelers who want to return home with more than photographs.
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Group Field Studies
Small-group research journeys for writers who value shared observation and conversation—without workshops, critiques, or performance pressure.
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Walking in My Grandmother's Footsteps: My Experience with Research Travel
Census records told me where my grandmother lived. Walking the neighborhood told me what it meant. This is the story of researching a novel about my grandmother's life in 1930s Knoxville — and why I had to go there to write it.
Research Travel Planning
What to Pack for a Research Trip
Research travel requires different packing than vacation travel. What to bring, what to leave, and how to prepare for the work of paying attention.
Destination Guides
Edinburgh for Writers: Beyond the Tourist Trail
A research guide to Edinburgh for writers. Beyond the Royal Mile and castle views—how to find the city's literary layers, hidden archives, and neighborhoods that reward slow attention."
Services
Why Work With a Travel Advisor for Research Travel
You could plan your research trip yourself. Here's what a travel advisor offers that Google can't—and when working with one makes sense for writers.
Research Travel Planning
10 Questions to Ask Before Planning Your Research Trip | Early & Away
Before you book your research trip, work through these 10 questions. Your answers will shape your itinerary, budget, and what you'll actually accomplish.
Research Travel Planning
How to Budget for Research Travel as a Writer | Early & Away
Research travel is an investment in your work. Learn how to budget realistically, find flexibility, and make research trips achievable on a writer's budget.
Destination Guides
A Writer's Guide to North Yorkshire, England
A research guide to North Yorkshire for writers. From Victorian Harrogate to medieval market towns, moorland landscapes, and working farms—how to study a place rather than just visit it. Based on three years of lived experience in the region.
The Writing Life
Destination Is Not the Point. It's the Method.
Destination isn’t the point of research travel. It’s the method that shapes how writers observe, think, and write.
The Writing Life
Why Creative Research Can't Always Happen at Your Desk
Creative research is inquiry shaped by curiosity, not checklists. It's discovering what you didn't know you needed to know—and sometimes that kind of discovery can't happen at your desk.