Between Airports and Sunsets
I’m Tania De La Peña, a Chilean-born travel writer based in Australia, who still dreams in Spanish.
I took my first long-haul flight before I learned to drive. By nineteen, I was working as an international flight attendant, and by twenty-three I was living alone in Spain, my dream and, honestly, my crash course in adulthood. I’ve since lived in London (briefly), Portugal and now Australia, always chasing both opportunity and belonging.
For years, travel was my rhythm. I wrote guides, checklists and “must-see” itineraries for my first travel blog, a space filled with practical advice on what to pack, where to stay and how to move through airports with ease. Those stories still matter; they help friends who text me, “You’ve been to Costa Rica, right? What should I do first?”
But somewhere between airports and sunsets, something shifted. The checklists started to feel incomplete. I realized I wasn’t just chasing destinations, I was chasing meaning.
That’s how Traveler’s Edit began. It’s not about where to go, but why we go. Here, I write slower. I search for the sacred in the everyday, in unplanned detours, shared silences, and the glow of city lights reflected on a hotel window at night.
My background in fashion, luxury and hospitality taught me to appreciate beauty as intention and atmosphere. For a long time, I looked for beauty in movement, in places, in perfectly composed moments. With time, I understood that beauty also lives in stillness.
These days, my yoga mat travels with me. It’s where I return to silence when everything else is in motion, a reminder that going inward is also a form of travel. Yoga has become both my compass and my ritual, the way I stay connected no matter where I land.
I’ve been to more than forty countries and learned that the most memorable journeys are both an escape and a return, a mirror showing us who we were and who we might become. Somewhere along the way, I realized that travel is less about distance and more about consciousness, and every journey, no matter how far, begins within.
My writing is a piece of myself I pour into words. It blends reflection, nostalgia and humor, because my life on the road has been all of that: moments of awe, moments of chaos, and everything in between.
Traveler’s Edit is where all my journeys converge: the flight attendant, the writer, the dreamer, the marketer, the woman who believes that beauty and meaning can still coexist in a fast world.