Global Discoveries & Delicious Detours: The TsarWayOrTheHighway

Where travel plans are ambitious, packing skills are questionable, and our coffee standards are impossibly high.

We’re the friends who somehow convinced you that a 6AM flight was “not that bad” (we lied), that street food “probably won’t make you sick” (results may vary), and that “we don’t need reservations” (we definitely did).

Our travel philosophy is simple: research obsessively, plan ambitiously, then watch it all gloriously unravel when you accidentally spend four hours in that tiny bookshop you weren’t supposed to find. Or when you follow your nose down an alley and discover the best dumpling shop in Asia. Or when you miss your train because you couldn’t tear yourself away from that sunset.

Here you’ll find:

• Itineraries that straddle the line between “seeing everything important” and “having enough time to accidentally discover something magical”
• Food recommendations from high-end restaurants where we pretended to understand the wine list to street carts where we ordered by enthusiastically pointing
• Travel disasters retold with the rose-tinted glasses that only come from being safely back home
• Practical tips like how to fit 17 books into a carry-on (remove their covers) or how to say “I accidentally ordered the spiciest thing on your menu and I regret everything” in 12 languages

We’re not influencers posing in flowing dresses on empty mountaintops. We’re real travelers with food stains on our shirts, screenshots of Google Translate on our phones, and an uncanny ability to always pick the wrong train car.

Join us as we navigate the world one misadventure at a time. Because the best travel stories rarely come from when things go according to plan.

TsarWayOrTheHighway: Because sometimes the best memories happen when you take the wrong exit.

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