--- title: Curated Connections Travel Blog | Jenita Lawal (2) description: Jenita Lawal is a mother of three teenagers, professional travel advisor and owner of Lawal Travel Services, a Nashville-based travel agency specializing in adults-only luxury travel. When she’s not researching beautiful destinations and curating travel experiences for her clients, she enjoys picking up a camera or a pen (okay, a keyboard) to dabble in photography and writing. (2) image: https://lawaltravel.com/hubfs/nspired%20Travel%20-%20Paris.png --- [Skip to content](https://lawaltravel.com/blog/author/jenita-lawal/page/2#main-content) - [Home](https://lawaltravel.com) - [Business Travel](https://lawaltravel.com/business-travel-management) - [About](https://lawaltravel.com/about) - [Blog](https://lawaltravel.com/blog) - [Leisure Travel](https://lawaltravel.com/book-travel) #### A Travel Blog # Curated Connections Your destination for travel stories, travel tips, and travel news. 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If you show up online at all (and most of...* [Read More](https://lawaltravel.com/blog/travel-photo-shoot-personal-branding) [![solo travel to Benalmádena, Spain](https://lawaltravel.com/hs-fs/hubfs/20241029_161008.jpg?width=596&name=20241029_161008.jpg)](https://lawaltravel.com/blog/azores-portugal-spain-solo-travel) [Travel Stories](https://lawaltravel.com/blog/tag/travel-stories), [Inspiration](https://lawaltravel.com/blog/tag/inspiration) [Jenita Lawal](https://lawaltravel.com/blog/author/jenita-lawal) ## [I Signed Up for a Writing Workshop in Spain. Getting There Was the Real Story.](https://lawaltravel.com/blog/azores-portugal-spain-solo-travel) In the fall of 2024, I did something I had been putting off. 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