Hello There! I'm Moy.

You know that feeling when you're sitting on a plane, knowing where you are going to land, and you are excited thinking and daydreaming of everything that you will see and do, just eager to get there? I used to think too much about that on my first trips. Now, I have learned to become aware of this, enjoy it, and just let the trip surprise me. Because as much as you can plan trips and want to have a perfect itinerary, there will always be a surprise – good or bad – and that is where the real journey begins.

Something happens at that moment of the trip, you go somewhere expecting to see a place, try the food, see a friend or family that lives in another country, but that place ends up showing you something about yourself instead. Something deeper, something true about yourself that you wouldn't have seen otherwise. After being in 33 countries, I know that all these surprises are part of the trip, and they're something I now look forward to. Every outer journey that you take is also an inner one – a test of character, a mirror of your true self, a recalibration of who you thought you were, an opportunity to grow and evolve.

I'm Moy. I'm 27, Mexican born, and a citizen of the world. I attribute this to my father, who has shared the beauty of travel with me from a young age and has taught me how to see and enjoy the world. I have traveled with my family, with friends, by myself, for leisure, for partying, for work, and all these different trips have shown me inner truths about myself, sometimes in the moment, sometimes only later. They have also given me something I couldn't have found any other way: meeting so many fascinating strangers, and then forging friendships across the world, people from so many different countries that I now consider family. Some of them have opened their homes to me – as I have opened mine to them as well – and let me see their cities the way locals do, which changes the way you experience a place entirely. I still love the conventional tourist side of travel, but seeing a place through someone who lives there is something else and way more unique.

The publication you're reading is called The Art of Sol Travel, and there are a few reasons I chose that name. Firstly, I want to address the word Sol. I drew inspiration from my last name, Solis, which is Latin for The Sun. Sol is a symbol that is present in most esoteric traditions as well as across many cultures. In alchemy, the Sun is the gold at the end of the work, the self made whole. In astrology, it's who you are at the core, the truest expression of the self, the essence that shines through. There's also something I find interesting about the sound of it. Sol is phonetically similar to soul, and traveling feeds my soul like nothing else.

As for the art part, I'm a very artistic person and it was thanks to one of my trips that I rediscovered that side of me, and I would say that traveling, just like any other craft, is also an art. Anyone can take a trip and just let the external side of it be their experience, which I think is totally fine. But once you discover that traveling with intention is different, when you allow yourself to fully experience the place you're at, when you pay attention to how that place makes you feel and think, it's when you realize that the trip is a reflection of your inner self. It's showing you things that otherwise would have gone unnoticed by the ordinary everyday lens we have at home. That's why I think traveling is an art, one that you get better at over time.

This is a travel publication, but not the kind that people are used to. I do write about places – where I've been, what I did, what I saw, recommendations of what is worth doing and what can be skipped, what I've learned along the way. You will be reading plenty of that. However, that's just one half; the other half is what travel actually does to a person internally: what it reveals, what it teaches, what it reflects back from the deepest parts of yourself. That's what most travelers don't write about, and for me that's one of the most interesting things there is. So, you will get both in the same issues: the practical and the personal, the outer trip and the inner one. That's how I see travel now – the two are just different sides of the same coin.

So that's what this is. A weekly publication for travelers who want both sides of the trip: the one across the map and the one inside. New issues arrive every Sunday. So, if that sounds like the traveler you are, or if you've ever come back from a trip feeling like something inside you shifted and wished someone wrote about those things, you've come to the right place. I'd love for you to come along and travel both worlds as one.

—Moy