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kristinwinet

📖 🤓 award-winning writer, travel editor, & teacher of teachers
restless soul✈️ raising 2 👦👧 in the desert 🌵
@panorama_journal @travelerstalesbooks

When you have a work trip to Spain, pre-trip it wi

When you have a work trip to Spain, pre-trip it with your European girlfriends to Portugal🍷 ☀️ 🏝️ 🛥️ 🥂 🇪🇸 🇵🇹

Seriously, though, I’m so grateful for these last four days exploring the Algarve with my dear Swiss friends Jo & Val!! Sevilla to Tavira to Faro is a pretty easy journey (we took buses & trains) & everywhere is so beautiful. It was HOT (omg, it was so hot) but it was worth every second.

Jo and I have been traveling together for more than half our lives (thanks to our favorite beige island (Malta, of course!) for bringing us together in 2004!!). I’ve known Val since she came as Jo’s +1 to our wedding in 2013 (and then joined us on our honeymoon 🤭) Human connections like these don’t come across like this every day…and I don’t know what I did to get so lucky, but wow, I am lucky💕

Thank you to my amazing husband Ryan (who will never see this because he’s not on social media!!!) for always encouraging me to take the trip & spending the week with our kids. He will need a very good souvenir 😄

I’m so excited (and let’s be honest…terrified?) to

I’m so excited (and let’s be honest…terrified?) to be one of the featured readers at the Best Women’s Travel Writing book launch this Tuesday, June 9 at 5 pm PST/8 pm EST, hosted by the ever-incredible @laviniaspalding! I can’t believe I get to read alongside @susanorlean, @laurakillingbeck, @caletha_style, and Cherene Sherrard! It will be an exquisite night with @travelerstalesbooks celebrating women’s voices in travel! Zoom link here: https://tinyurl.com/4rc57cmk

#bwtw13 #bestwomenstravelwriting #solasawards #travelerstales #panorama

Happy Memorial Day!! Loved exploring the Gila Wild

Happy Memorial Day!! Loved exploring the Gila Wilderness this weekend in New Mexico with some of my very favorite humans ☀️ We hiked Cherry Creek Trail in Pinos Altos, went to a curio shop where almost nothing was for sale (that’s a forthcoming essay in itself!), had drinks at the Buckhorn Saloon, the only surviving saloon in town (it opened in 1803!), walked the precarious Catwalk, played board games on rainy mornings, and visited the Gila Cliff Dwellings of the ancient Puebloan people. And cooked lots of meals and stayed up too late and let our kids run around barefoot in the forest❤️

I posted this sentiment on my stories yesterday, but I’m so happy we finally got to have a trip that *almost* felt like they used to - our kids hiked with us, got along so well with each other, & went to bed at reasonable hours 😜 I’m feeling really good about taking more trips with our kids (this is new for me - it’s hard to admit this out loud, but I found traveling with infants and toddlers really tough & just completely exhausting). Is that normal? Anyway, this beautiful trip made me feel like we can really do this thing 💪 And it was so good to be with friends I’ve adored & traveled with since we were early 20-somethings learning to be writers in grad school❤️

#gilacliffdwellings #newmexico #catwalkrecreationarea #silvercity #pinosaltos

Happy to share I have a new flash essay (“flash” b

Happy to share I have a new flash essay (“flash” being a piece of nonfiction under 300 words) in this issue of @panorama_journal! To me, the beauty (and challenge) of writing travel flash is that it must bring together moments of a day that might otherwise never meet (a man on a train and a dish you eat; a building you pass by and a memory of the past; a reflection on fleeting moments and a street seller you meet, etc.), it must pay attention to natural metaphors, and it must be super restrained in ways travel writing usually isn’t. It’s very against my nature to write this way, by the way! So I don’t know if I achieved these things, but here it is. This piece is about a trip I took to the town of Bisbee, AZ in February - an old mining town on the US/MX border that’s considered one of the most haunted towns in the Southwest 💕 @discoverbisbee

The other pieces in this issue are gorgeous and wonderful—go read them!

Link in bio 💕

My girl turns 5! A week of my parents, both of our

My girl turns 5! A week of my parents, both of our sisters, three cousins, and lots of friends 💕 Happy hour at @sonoranhouse_samhughes, playtime & pizza night with San Diego cousins, Riley’s soccer game, brunch at Congress & @deserthazemarket with neighbors & my sis, movie night under the stars with my girls in cowgirl pajamas - and real Sonoran desert FIREFLIES! -, hosting our beloved writers’ group, and an awesome & beautiful 5th birthday party at lovely Rio Vista Park.

Can I take a nap now? Also, have realized hosting 10 people at my 1800 sq ft house is a pretty tight - but fun- squeeze! Happy birthday to my Zoey Grace! 🎉

As many know, both our house and I were in sorry s

As many know, both our house and I were in sorry shape when we moved in two years ago….I was totally unprepared to care for a historic home (like when the monsoon tore off the roof 3 weeks after we bought it, or when we tried to undo the badly poured concrete and found 5 layers of floors and realized someone had sawed off the bottoms of all the doors rather than fix the floor, etc.)

Things started to feel better after our first progressive dinner, when I met my neighbors & found out that all of our wood ceilings pop at night and make weird noises ❤️

San Rafael progressive dinner 2026

Some of my favorite snaps from the San Angel neigh

Some of my favorite snaps from the San Angel neighborhood in Mexico City ❤️ The weekend art markets are absolutely divine here - the streets are completely full of painters, photographers, jewelry makers, artists, and pretty much anyone else who has a creative heart.

The neighborhood is pretty far south in terms of the city’s layout, but you can take the metro from Roma Norte all the way to San Angel and hop off right next to the markets! #cdmx #ciudadmexico #sanangel #markets #mexicocity🇲🇽

I’m incredibly excited to have one of my essays in

I’m incredibly excited to have one of my essays in the forthcoming edition of Best Women’s Travel Writing!! (And so proud to be among such an exceptional group of writers I admire!). Thankful for the ridiculously talented @laviniaspalding and @wanderlustandwetwipes who made my essay so much better with every revision.

The book comes out in June, but you can pre-order it now on Bookshop (or Amazon)! Link in my bio too ❤️ Pre-orders are so important for indicating which books get reviewed by major pubs, so please consider ordering! The stories will inspire you to see the glimmering fragments of beauty & hope in our world❤️

#bwtw #travelwriting #bestwomenstravelwriting

Mexico City 🇲🇽 was a beautiful blur in the very be

Mexico City 🇲🇽 was a beautiful blur in the very best way! I spent a week with my very dear friend Alba from Malta and her husband Andres (who is now my friend, too!). They just moved to La Juarez near Roma Norte & La Condesa. We did so much in a week, from just walking around the cobblestone streets & super cute neighborhoods to talking for hours & hours in cafes….but we did some tourist stuff, too :)

My fave restaurants (oh my gosh, so many) were Chui for vino naranja, Cafe Nin for cardamom pastries, Cafe Maque for muffins de elote, Paramo for upscale tacos & cute ambiance, Terraza Cha Cha Cha for quesabirria & espresso martinis & rooftop views, Oaxaquito for tyaludas & tejate, Cafe Petrea for a cafe vibe in a bookstore, Pulque La Nuclear for grungy/cool pulque experience, and El Minutito for croissants 🥐

Tip: always, if you can, take the trip & spend time with your lifelong friends 💕 And bring some really yummy mezcal back for your rockstar husband, too 😘

#mexico #cdmx #travel #mexicocity

When a dear friend from your time in Florida comes

When a dear friend from your time in Florida comes to visit (ok actually she had a conference here but still 💕) you show her the most you can of the Sonoran Desert🌵☀️ In just a half a day, we crammed in so much! A visit to our little mid-century home, a beautiful drive through the mountains, Desert Museum (& a goal monster), a perfect Gates Pass sunset, downtown, El Charro, & of course, chimis & prickly pear margaritas🎉 We had the best time! @asugar8

Late summer adventures in Spirit Lake #Idaho ☀️🐻 I

Late summer adventures in Spirit Lake #Idaho ☀️🐻 Including trees, a lake, a boat, about 30 of Ryan’s closest family members, a glass or five of white wine, and 2 little kids who were mostly on board with the whole thing 🙈 (traveling with 2 kiddos is SO hard, I don’t know how people who are traveling with little kids make it look easy but pls tell me your secrets 😬) Still, love my family to pieces❤️

#familyreunion #summervibes☀️

Is it 1990 or 2025? 🤷‍♀️ A few weeks ago, my dad u

Is it 1990 or 2025? 🤷‍♀️ A few weeks ago, my dad unearthed some VHS tapes of our family videos from the 1990s—on the same day Riley lost his first tooth 🥰 Little did we know (until today when I got the digitized files back) that one of the first video clips on the tapes is of me on the day I lost *my* first tooth! It’s almost poetic, isn’t it? 🦷

And you can’t hear this on the reel, but the two of us say “wiggly” the exact same way 😘 Also, my sister’s vampire teeth are everything!! I love it 💕

We’ve got lightning bugs, lakes, watermelon cockta

We’ve got lightning bugs, lakes, watermelon cocktails, and fireworks in the driveway 🎉 It must be summer in the south!☀️ Loved every minute spending time with family - and especially my sister’s haircut ceremony as she continues on her chemo journey (plus, who has ever looked so good with a shaved head?!) Life is never a straight line, but it’s so rich and beautiful if you know where to look ❤️ #summervibes☀️

It’s not every day you find your grandmother’s “hi

It’s not every day you find your grandmother’s “him book” from 1941! This book is full of all the guys she wanted to date - and almost all of them are in uniform. It’s not lost of me how crazy it is to find this the day after the 4th of July, when I’m feeling particularly sad about the state of affairs this country is in 🫣 What a find, grandma. Plus, can I just say that my grandma dated a LOT of cute guys?! 😜❤️ #himbook #1940s #dating #archives #olddocuments #wwiihistory #wwii #uniform #army #navy #coastguard #4thofjuly #writing #cnf

San Diego weekend vibes 🎶 🌧️ 🥾 👯‍♀️ 📖 ☔️

San Diego weekend vibes 🎶 🌧️ 🥾 👯‍♀️ 📖 ☔️

A lovely week celebrating springtime in the desert

A lovely week celebrating springtime in the desert🌵 Bike rides, reading in Spanish, soccer games, astronomy lessons & finding galaxies, horseback riding, margaritas with friends, prosecco with friends, campus walks, and lots of love 💕 @roswellangler

What a beautiful day! Easter is sometimes hard bec

What a beautiful day! Easter is sometimes hard because we live far away from our families (and I always wish we could spend the day with our family), but sunshine, bubbles, cats, and video calls make it feel a little more like the perfect spring holiday☀️ 🐣

Nothing more fun than hiring a chef to come and sp

Nothing more fun than hiring a chef to come and spoil your sister on her birthday! Thanks to @therealchefoh and his amazing team (Alex, you are the best!), we had a beautiful night of mushroom bruschetta, filet mignon with a balsamic reduction, homemade mac and cheese, brussel sprouts, and a tres leches cake with churros! The birthday girl looked radiant & the spring weather was also perfection! ☀️👌🎉❤️ We love you, @ekwederas! #birthdaypartyideas #therealchefoh #homechef #privatechef #birthday #40thbirthdayparty

I’m not sure I’d recommend combining a work confer

I’m not sure I’d recommend combining a work conference trip with a trip to see your parents, a trip to celebrate your son’s 6 year old birthday, a trip to throw a party for your sister’s 40th birthday, and a trip to meet your dear friends’ 2 year old daughter for the first time, but, well, we did it. Exhausting and amazing. 🩷 A big upside? Our kids are becoming the best little travelers!

Neighborhood progressive dinner was a total dream!

Neighborhood progressive dinner was a total dream! A night full of paella 🥘, wine 🍷, and lots of beautiful humans. It’s not lost on me how lucky we are to get to live around such kind & open-hearted people ❤️ @laura.perrella @arzatemusica @betharzate @thloje @ithinkitsryan

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📖 🤓 award-winning writer, travel editor, & teacher of teachers
restless soul✈️ raising 2 👦👧 in the desert 🌵
@panorama_journal @travelerstalesbooks

When you have a work trip to Spain, pre-trip it wi

When you have a work trip to Spain, pre-trip it with your European girlfriends to Portugal🍷 ☀️ 🏝️ 🛥️ 🥂 🇪🇸 🇵🇹

Seriously, though, I’m so grateful for these last four days exploring the Algarve with my dear Swiss friends Jo & Val!! Sevilla to Tavira to Faro is a pretty easy journey (we took buses & trains) & everywhere is so beautiful. It was HOT (omg, it was so hot) but it was worth every second.

Jo and I have been traveling together for more than half our lives (thanks to our favorite beige island (Malta, of course!) for bringing us together in 2004!!). I’ve known Val since she came as Jo’s +1 to our wedding in 2013 (and then joined us on our honeymoon 🤭) Human connections like these don’t come across like this every day…and I don’t know what I did to get so lucky, but wow, I am lucky💕

Thank you to my amazing husband Ryan (who will never see this because he’s not on social media!!!) for always encouraging me to take the trip & spending the week with our kids. He will need a very good souvenir 😄

I’m so excited (and let’s be honest…terrified?) to

I’m so excited (and let’s be honest…terrified?) to be one of the featured readers at the Best Women’s Travel Writing book launch this Tuesday, June 9 at 5 pm PST/8 pm EST, hosted by the ever-incredible @laviniaspalding! I can’t believe I get to read alongside @susanorlean, @laurakillingbeck, @caletha_style, and Cherene Sherrard! It will be an exquisite night with @travelerstalesbooks celebrating women’s voices in travel! Zoom link here: https://tinyurl.com/4rc57cmk

#bwtw13 #bestwomenstravelwriting #solasawards #travelerstales #panorama

Happy Memorial Day!! Loved exploring the Gila Wild

Happy Memorial Day!! Loved exploring the Gila Wilderness this weekend in New Mexico with some of my very favorite humans ☀️ We hiked Cherry Creek Trail in Pinos Altos, went to a curio shop where almost nothing was for sale (that’s a forthcoming essay in itself!), had drinks at the Buckhorn Saloon, the only surviving saloon in town (it opened in 1803!), walked the precarious Catwalk, played board games on rainy mornings, and visited the Gila Cliff Dwellings of the ancient Puebloan people. And cooked lots of meals and stayed up too late and let our kids run around barefoot in the forest❤️

I posted this sentiment on my stories yesterday, but I’m so happy we finally got to have a trip that *almost* felt like they used to - our kids hiked with us, got along so well with each other, & went to bed at reasonable hours 😜 I’m feeling really good about taking more trips with our kids (this is new for me - it’s hard to admit this out loud, but I found traveling with infants and toddlers really tough & just completely exhausting). Is that normal? Anyway, this beautiful trip made me feel like we can really do this thing 💪 And it was so good to be with friends I’ve adored & traveled with since we were early 20-somethings learning to be writers in grad school❤️

#gilacliffdwellings #newmexico #catwalkrecreationarea #silvercity #pinosaltos

Happy to share I have a new flash essay (“flash” b

Happy to share I have a new flash essay (“flash” being a piece of nonfiction under 300 words) in this issue of @panorama_journal! To me, the beauty (and challenge) of writing travel flash is that it must bring together moments of a day that might otherwise never meet (a man on a train and a dish you eat; a building you pass by and a memory of the past; a reflection on fleeting moments and a street seller you meet, etc.), it must pay attention to natural metaphors, and it must be super restrained in ways travel writing usually isn’t. It’s very against my nature to write this way, by the way! So I don’t know if I achieved these things, but here it is. This piece is about a trip I took to the town of Bisbee, AZ in February - an old mining town on the US/MX border that’s considered one of the most haunted towns in the Southwest 💕 @discoverbisbee

The other pieces in this issue are gorgeous and wonderful—go read them!

Link in bio 💕

My girl turns 5! A week of my parents, both of our

My girl turns 5! A week of my parents, both of our sisters, three cousins, and lots of friends 💕 Happy hour at @sonoranhouse_samhughes, playtime & pizza night with San Diego cousins, Riley’s soccer game, brunch at Congress & @deserthazemarket with neighbors & my sis, movie night under the stars with my girls in cowgirl pajamas - and real Sonoran desert FIREFLIES! -, hosting our beloved writers’ group, and an awesome & beautiful 5th birthday party at lovely Rio Vista Park.

Can I take a nap now? Also, have realized hosting 10 people at my 1800 sq ft house is a pretty tight - but fun- squeeze! Happy birthday to my Zoey Grace! 🎉

As many know, both our house and I were in sorry s

As many know, both our house and I were in sorry shape when we moved in two years ago….I was totally unprepared to care for a historic home (like when the monsoon tore off the roof 3 weeks after we bought it, or when we tried to undo the badly poured concrete and found 5 layers of floors and realized someone had sawed off the bottoms of all the doors rather than fix the floor, etc.)

Things started to feel better after our first progressive dinner, when I met my neighbors & found out that all of our wood ceilings pop at night and make weird noises ❤️

San Rafael progressive dinner 2026

Some of my favorite snaps from the San Angel neigh

Some of my favorite snaps from the San Angel neighborhood in Mexico City ❤️ The weekend art markets are absolutely divine here - the streets are completely full of painters, photographers, jewelry makers, artists, and pretty much anyone else who has a creative heart.

The neighborhood is pretty far south in terms of the city’s layout, but you can take the metro from Roma Norte all the way to San Angel and hop off right next to the markets! #cdmx #ciudadmexico #sanangel #markets #mexicocity🇲🇽

I’m incredibly excited to have one of my essays in

I’m incredibly excited to have one of my essays in the forthcoming edition of Best Women’s Travel Writing!! (And so proud to be among such an exceptional group of writers I admire!). Thankful for the ridiculously talented @laviniaspalding and @wanderlustandwetwipes who made my essay so much better with every revision.

The book comes out in June, but you can pre-order it now on Bookshop (or Amazon)! Link in my bio too ❤️ Pre-orders are so important for indicating which books get reviewed by major pubs, so please consider ordering! The stories will inspire you to see the glimmering fragments of beauty & hope in our world❤️

#bwtw #travelwriting #bestwomenstravelwriting

Mexico City 🇲🇽 was a beautiful blur in the very be

Mexico City 🇲🇽 was a beautiful blur in the very best way! I spent a week with my very dear friend Alba from Malta and her husband Andres (who is now my friend, too!). They just moved to La Juarez near Roma Norte & La Condesa. We did so much in a week, from just walking around the cobblestone streets & super cute neighborhoods to talking for hours & hours in cafes….but we did some tourist stuff, too :)

My fave restaurants (oh my gosh, so many) were Chui for vino naranja, Cafe Nin for cardamom pastries, Cafe Maque for muffins de elote, Paramo for upscale tacos & cute ambiance, Terraza Cha Cha Cha for quesabirria & espresso martinis & rooftop views, Oaxaquito for tyaludas & tejate, Cafe Petrea for a cafe vibe in a bookstore, Pulque La Nuclear for grungy/cool pulque experience, and El Minutito for croissants 🥐

Tip: always, if you can, take the trip & spend time with your lifelong friends 💕 And bring some really yummy mezcal back for your rockstar husband, too 😘

#mexico #cdmx #travel #mexicocity

When a dear friend from your time in Florida comes

When a dear friend from your time in Florida comes to visit (ok actually she had a conference here but still 💕) you show her the most you can of the Sonoran Desert🌵☀️ In just a half a day, we crammed in so much! A visit to our little mid-century home, a beautiful drive through the mountains, Desert Museum (& a goal monster), a perfect Gates Pass sunset, downtown, El Charro, & of course, chimis & prickly pear margaritas🎉 We had the best time! @asugar8

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