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Exploring How Travel Makes Us Feel

A JOURNAL ABOUT TRAVEL & DISCOVERY

Return Trip is an independent travel journal exploring the places we go, the people we meet, and the ways our journeys change us. We believe that travel is not simply about getting somewhere new — it is about seeing the familiar differently, embracing the unexpected, and discovering something about ourselves along the way.

Through personal essays, photography, art, and thoughtful storytelling, we explore the many meanings of being somewhere else. From fleeting encounters to life-changing experiences, we celebrate the moments that stay with us long after we return home.

We are drawn to stories that challenge our perspectives, connect us across cultures, and remind us that every journey leaves something behind — and brings something back.

Wherever you go, you never return quite the same.

issue 1 cover

Issue 02: Spring/Summer

6 x 8.5 inches, 90 pages, full colour, perfect bound.
Made in Toronto, Canada.

About Us

Return Trip is a travel magazine about feeling your way through the world. Every year, we independently publish a collection of personal essays, stories, art, and photography about meaningful and transformative travel experiences. We aim to showcase the personal aspects of travel—how it can change us and contribute to our own self-knowledge, self-discovery, identity and growth, and how it can encourage empathy, compassion and new ways of understanding.

See our first issue, launched in Spring/Summer

issue 1 cover

6 x 8.5 inches, 110 colour pages, perfect bound.
Made in Toronto, Canada.

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