Why I bought a one-way ticket out

Travel notes from the year I stopped planning return flights — and what that did to how I work.

The first one-way ticket felt reckless. By the fifth, it felt obvious. Removing the return date forced me to design days, not just trips.

Work changes when home is portable

Without a return flight, you stop treating the trip as an interruption. You start protecting your mornings, finding quiet rooms, choosing places by their wifi and not their landmarks.