While there’s a lot of uncertainty ahead, we’re going to get through this week, this month, and this rollercoaster of a year--I promise! To fortify your patience and resilience for the days ahead, here are some suggestions:

Labor Day was created 127 years ago to honor American workers with a national day of rest. After this harrowing year-plus, workers really need a break, including our team at Getaway. Tomorrow, we’re proud to be closing our company, including all of our Outposts, for Labor Day and the entire work week.

With summer winding down, skyrocketing rates of exhaustion and burnout reveal that we don’t just need more options for when and where we do our work—we need more time away from work altogether.

Last summer, the police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor sparked a national reckoning with the persistent violence of racism in America. Protesters took to the streets in cities…

The guiding philosophy of Getaway is that building and maintaining a balanced, meaningful life requires free time—not just for rest and rejuvenation, but to foster inspiration, creativity, relationship-building, and self-determination. Starting this Labor Day, Getaway will be celebrating “Labor Week” by shutting down business for the whole workweek. Read more from our founder, Jon Staff.

This month, our founder, Jon Staff, invited Mikah Meyer, travel writer and founder of Outside Safe Space, to share reflections on making nature more inclusive for the LGBTQ+ community. As a tribute to his dad, Mikah visited all 400-plus sites in the National Park Service, and he wants to encourage everyone to travel — and be your authentic self.

I’ve always found civic engagement incredibly inspiring, and never more than over the course of the last year. In the early days of the pandemic, I witnessed the myriad ways Americans came together in the service of our country and each other, as folks got together to sew masks for frontline workers, and mutual aid groups organized to deliver groceries and medicine to vulnerable community members.

this month we're celebrating Pride by spotlighting our LGBTQ+ guests, creators, and community. Additionally we’ll be donating to the three organizations highlighted below. We hope you will join us in championing their efforts.

This month, our founder, Jon Staff, is passing the mic to Sophia Li, a Chinese-American journalist, advocate and director whose work focuses on the intersections between climate and social justice to hear more from her on climate optimism.