Some people travel to tick boxes. Slow Across the World is for the rest of us.
This is a Love Life More travel series built around a simple idea: that the best experiences happen when you slow down, stay longer, and let a place actually get under your skin. No racing between airports. No fourteen countries in three weeks. Just real people, moving through real places, at a pace that lets you notice things.
Our first series is Slow Across South America — and it belongs to Ruth.
Ruth spent over a year travelling slowly through South America with her partner Ren. No day-by-day itinerary. A rental income instead of savings. Map pins and word of mouth instead of guidebooks. She’s not a nomad, not a backpacker, not an adrenaline junkie. She’s someone who spent her 50th year saying yes to uncomfortable things — and found that the muscle she built was strong enough to say yes to something enormous.
Her series is honest, funny, practical, and genuinely useful whether you’re planning your own South American adventure or simply drawn to the idea that life doesn’t have to follow the expected path.
Read it from the beginning below, or dive into whichever blog calls to you.
Slow Across South America — Read the Series
Blog 1
Saying Yes to the Small Stuff — And Why It Changed Everything
How a year of saying yes to uncomfortable things built the courage for the biggest adventure of Ruth’s life.
Blog 2
How We Made Travelling South America on a Budget Work
The rental income, the garage, the flights booked before the tenant — the real story of how the decision actually happened.
Blog 3
Slow Travel in Your 50s: We Didn’t Fit Any of the Boxes (coming soon)
Not nomads. Not backpackers. Not gap year kids. Our way, our rules, our pace — and what volunteering taught Ruth about herself.
More blogs coming soon — including country-by-country guides to Argentina, Chile, Peru, Bolivia, Colombia, Brazil and more.
About Ruth
Ruth is a contributor to Love Life More and the voice behind Slow Across South America. She turned 50, said yes to fifty new things, and ended up spending fourteen months travelling slowly through South America with her partner Ren — no safety net, no rigid plan, and more memorable moments than she could ever have anticipated. She’s working on a creating a value packed guide if you want to follow her footsteps. Well, some of them – we always encourage you to do life your way. We will share it as soon as it’s ready. In the meantime, we’re lucky enough to have her here telling us everything we need to know to make our dreams of slow travel a reality.
Coming Next in Slow Across the World
Ruth’s South America series is just the beginning. Future chapters of Slow Across the World will cover other destinations — because slow travel isn’t a one-off, it’s a way of seeing the world.
Watch this space.