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The Tranquil Traveler is more than a travel blog.  Several years ago, an astrologer gave me a reading and three things seemed to be in my path - education, spiritual teachings and travel. I had just started writing a blog for a travel website that was called Self Discovery Travel.  It focussed on the lessons I learned during my travels.  That website folded, and I veered slightly off the path, until I went to an Organic Spa Magazine event and received a reading by a shaman. The reading echoed a similar path that the astrologer had laid out before me years before, with the addition of an aspect of healing, not surprising since I had started writing about health and wellness.  So The Tranquil Traveler combines a love for and interest in travel and wellness, with a bit of inner/spiritual growth.


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