I spent a decade taking annual trips to celebrate my birthday. Once I turned 40, I knew the tradition had to end.

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From age 30 through 40, I took a trip every year to celebrate my birthday.Then, on my 40th birthday trip, I decided that one trip a year was no longer enough. I wanted more.I've found ways to make travel a big, sustainable part of my life that's not limited to birthdays.My sister and I spent a week in Santorini to celebrate my 30th birthday. Somehow, that turned into a sacred tradition and, for the next decade, I took a trip for my birthday each year.I rang in one birthday by road-tripping from Seattle to San Diego in a Mustang convertible and another touring castles and distilleries in Scotland with a friend.One year, I celebrated getting older by eating tapas and watching flamenco troupes perform on a solo stay in Madrid and, for another, I ziplined through the Monteverde cloud forest in Costa Rica with my mom.To mark 39, I spent an afternoon in a floating spa on the St. Lawrence River during a trip to Montreal.

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