WELCOME TO SQUIRRELY GIRL TRAVELS!

🐿️ Helping over-thinkers, planners, and dreamers actually take the trip. 🐿️

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HELLO!


I’m Colleen, and I’m so glad you stopped by today.

I’m a late-diagnosed ADHD traveler who plans trips with too many tabs open, a half-full cup of coffee, and multiple notebooks full of ideas.

Travel hasn’t just changed my location—it’s changed the way I live. And I’m here to help you do the same.

If we’re not friends yet, keep reading, start dreaming, grab a notebook, open a few tabs and let’s change that! 💻 📓

So, let’s share experiences, dreams and even struggles.

I am here for you and can’t wait to see where this adventure takes us. ✈️

→READ MY STORY!

Welcome to the ever changing, often squirrely, endlessly amazing world of traveling with ADHD.

✈️LET’S🌏GO!🚙

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WHERE SHOULD WE START??

Not sure where to go?

Before I understood my neurodivergence, this question would often keep me up at night…for weeks at a time.

If you can relate, we already have something in common.

Pick the path that feels most like you today. Start wherever feels easiest—there is no wrong place to begin.

What You’ll Find Here:

‍ ‍ Here’s what you’ll find at Squirrely Girl Travels: I want to inspire and encourage you to turn “someday” into:

“Guess what I just did!”‍ ‍

🌴🌏 Destination inspiration (no pressure, just ideas!)

🧠🧐 How I use my ADHD to help plan vacations

✈️🏃🏼‍♀️ Honest travel stories…the good, the bad and the ugly!

🫶🏻 Encouragement when you’re overwhelmed

⁉️ What’s helped me the most

If travel sounds exciting but also overwhelming, you’re not alone.

IF YOU’VE EVER SAID….

🔍 💻“I’ve been researching for weeks (or months), but I can’t decide”

🏨⛺️🏠“Where should I stay?”
(SO many choices…hotels, motels, B&B’s, inns, personal vacation rentals, hostels…)

🧘🏼‍♀️👀“I want to relax, but I feel like I need to see everything!”

📓💲“This looks great on paper, but…”

😰“I can’t do this. My anxiety is telling me NO”,

Squirrely Girl Travels is the place for you (and you, and you…)

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Get destination ideas, planning tips and encouragement for actually taking that trip.

(No pressure, just inspiration, ideas and support when you need it!)

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You don’t have to be spontaneous to travel—you just have to start.

So…grab a pencil and notebook…open several tabs, and join me in planning the next amazing, squirrely adventure full of memories!

Let’s scour some maps, make messy lists, and see where all those tabs take us—together, because adventure loves a good outline.

🐿️ Squirrely Girl Travels is a growing adventure. New stories, photos, resources, and travel tips are being added regularly, so check back often!