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    LifestyleWriting and Blogging

    Is It Time to Quit? 11 Years of This Battered Suitcase

    by Brenna Holeman April 12, 2021
    written by Brenna Holeman
    April 12, 2021
    54 comments
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  • Lifestyle

    Holy &$@% 2020, Are You For Real?

    by Brenna Holeman July 7, 2020
    by Brenna Holeman July 7, 2020

    While this year might not have round-the-world adventures, I’m still going to try to make the best of it, still going to try to be productive. So what does the rest of 2020 have in store for me?

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  • LifestyleWriting and Blogging

    Ten Years of This Battered Suitcase (and an update)

    by Brenna Holeman April 12, 2020
    by Brenna Holeman April 12, 2020

    On April 12th, 2010, I sat on my bed in my sunny flat in downtown Osaka, Japan, and I wrote this post. It’s only a few lines long, the photos are edited…

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  • AdviceWriting and Blogging

    15 Years of Travel Blogging: 10 Things I Did Right

    by Brenna Holeman November 12, 2018
    written by Brenna Holeman
    November 12, 2018
    37 comments
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  • AdviceWriting and Blogging

    15 Years of Travel Blogging: 10 Things I Did Wrong

    by Brenna Holeman June 4, 2018
    by Brenna Holeman June 4, 2018

    After fifteen years of writing online, I have definitely committed some of the biggest mistakes in travel blogging. Here’s what I did wrong, and what I’ve learned along the way.

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  • Writing and Blogging

    Well, Well, Well… Check Out My NEW BLOG!

    by Brenna Holeman April 16, 2018
    by Brenna Holeman April 16, 2018

    The day has finally come. After years (and years) of talking about wanting to both redesign my blog AND fix the ten thousand errors that seemed to plague it… IT IS FINISHED! OK, actually, there is still a lot of work behind the scenes to be done, but for the most part, things are running a lot smoother and are (hopefully) a lot easier to navigate.

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  • AdviceWriting and Blogging

    The Best Books to Become a Better Writer

    by Brenna Holeman December 7, 2017
    written by Brenna Holeman
    December 7, 2017
    31 comments
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  • AdviceStoriesWriting and Blogging

    How I Got Started: My Journey Through 11 Years of Travelling and Writing About It

    by Brenna Holeman October 24, 2017
    by Brenna Holeman October 24, 2017

    It’s one of the most frequently asked questions I get via email, comments, and messages across social media: how do I do what you do? And by what I do, I assume people mean…

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  • LifestyleWriting and Blogging

    On Hitting “Publish”: Everything That Goes Through My Brain Before Publishing a Blog Post

    by Brenna Holeman September 6, 2017
    by Brenna Holeman September 6, 2017

    Why yes, my workspace DOES always look like it’s straight out of an ethereal Instagram account (only thing missing is my straw hat) and DEFINITELY NOT a scratched IKEA desk with red…

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    Taking a Break From the Thing You Love

    by Brenna Holeman July 26, 2017
    written by Brenna Holeman
    July 26, 2017
    49 comments
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Hi, I'm Brenna

After travelling to more than 100 countries over the past 19 years, many of them solo, I write about travel a lot but I write about other things, too: break ups, buying way too much jewellery, and whisky, for example (none of those things are related, I swear). You’ll find a mix of advice, opinion pieces, and stories on this blog, but either way, I hope to make you want to read more. And up next? I'm now a single mom to a beautiful little boy, the biggest solo adventure I've ever been on. For more about me and what you'll find on This Battered Suitcase, click here.

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Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life." - Jack Kerouac

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Last Stops: Phoenix, AZ & Vancouver, BC

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