A Little Adrift

Personal travel site with slow-travel stories, destination guides and living abroad resources.

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About A Little Adrift

A Little Adrift is the longrunning personal travel site of Shannon O'Donnell, who launched the blog after leaving to travel in 2008. Over more than 15 years she turned a yearlong round-the-world trip into a resource for longterm travel, remote work and responsible, local-level tourism. The site hosts more than 280 posts since 2011 and a community of 150,000+ readers, offering destination guides, planning resources, living abroad advice and a sister site for grassroots volunteering. Posts are strongly first-person and illustrated with the author’s own photography, and the site aggregates tips from readers and the ALA community.

Shannon’s voice is the thing that makes A Little Adrift unmistakable - warm, observant and intent on slow travel. Her longform pieces read like travel essays crossed with a practical planner: vivid scene-setting (as in the family Ronda piece), day-by-day itineraries, and plenty of firsthand detail about traveling and living abroad. The site leans on generous original photography and thoughtful, community-informed planning pages rather than clickbait listicles. It is especially useful for readers who want ethical, slow-paced trip ideas and realistic advice for long stays, family travel moments, and building a life on the road.

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