About Routes & Roots Village

A Sisterhood for Women Who Wander

Routes & Roots Village was created for the women who feel most at home in motion — women who travel, drift, migrate with the seasons, live on wheels, or simply move through life in a way that doesn’t fit the traditional mold.

Some wander by choice.

Some by circumstance.

All of us deserve connection.

This is a Village for the women who crave real friendship, shared understanding, and a sense of belonging that follows them wherever they go — not tied to a single place, but rooted in the people who get it.

We are a sisterhood built on warmth, honesty, and the belief that women deserve spaces where they can show up fully themselves — without judgment, comparison, or needing to explain why they live the way they do.

Why This Village Exists

If you’ve lived on the road, traveled solo, moved through chapters, or reinvented yourself more than once, you know how beautiful and lonely it can be at the same time.

You also know this truth: People who don’t live this way often don’t understand it. But other women who wander do.

The Village was created to offer a home for women who carry their homes inside them — a place to come back to at the end of the day, the trip, the chapter, or the season.

A place where conversations feel real and support is genuine. A place where friendships grow no matter the miles between us.

What You’ll Find Here

Your Quick Start Guide to the Village

Routes & Roots Village is designed as a living, breathing community — a place where women who wander can find connection, support, and a sense of home no matter where they are.

Here’s how to move through the Village and what each space offers.

The Campfire

Live Gatherings, Real-Time Connection, and Community Circles

This is our heartspace.

The Campfire is where we meet live, face-to-face (camera optional), for:

  • connection circles

  • themed conversations

  • travel check-ins

  • support sessions

  • story nights

  • casual drop-ins

  • small group chats

  • community-led gatherings

After each live session, you’ll often find a small forum below where you can continue the conversation, ask follow-up questions, or catch up if you missed it.

If you want to feel the Village energy right away — start here.

The Village Garden

Support, Wisdom, Emotional Grounding, and Practical Resources

This is our Earth space — where we tend the deeper, real parts of life.

Inside the Garden you’ll find support around:

  • wellness and self-care

  • relationships

  • emotional grounding

  • life transitions

  • life on the road

  • personal growth

  • grief, healing, questions, and quiet struggles

  • practical, supportive wisdom

  • how-tos and resources shared by the community

This is where we root ourselves, where we grow, where we tend the parts of us that need light and care.

If you’re needing grounding, guidance, comfort, or growth — come here.

The Village Square

Our Daily Forum — Share, Ask, Connect, Check In

The Village Square is the center of our day-to-day life. This is where women gather to:

  • ask questions

  • share updates from the road

  • talk through challenges

  • celebrate wins

  • post reflections

  • offer support

  • drop photos or moments

  • connect with sisters in the simplest, most human way

It’s the beating heart of our community.

Drop in anytime — there’s always someone here.

If you want to meet the Village and join the flow of conversation, this is the place.

The Breezeway

Travel Support, Routes, Safety, Gear, and Life in Motion

This is our Air space — light, open, full of movement.

Here, you’ll find:

  • travel updates

  • route recommendations

  • safety checklists

  • nomad logistics

  • gear advice

  • road wisdom

  • meetups on the map

  • tips for traveling solo

  • inspiration for future journeys

  • weather + seasonal info

  • what it’s like in specific regions or routes

It’s where the winds of the road meet the insight of women who’ve been there.

If you’re planning, dreaming, moving, or wandering — the Breezeway is your space.

How to Use the Village

A few simple ways to settle in

  • Introduce yourself in the Village Square Forum (members only!).  A few lines is perfect — where you are, how you wander, and what brought you here.

  • Join a live Campfire when you can.  It’s the fastest way to feel the warmth of the Village.

  • Ask for what you need.  Support, travel advice, encouragement, knowledge — sisters here actually respond.

  • Share your wins and struggles. This Village is built on honesty, not perfection.

  • Browse the Garden when you need grounding. There’s comfort, wisdom, and calm there.

  • Visit the Breezeway if you’re planning your next move. Travel questions, logistics, and inspiration live there.

  • Come as you are. Quiet some weeks, active others — all welcome.

Who This Village Is For

Routes & Roots Village is for anyone identifying as a woman, who wanders or feels called to wander:

  • bus and van travelers

  • nomads

  • sailors

  • women moving through life transitions

  • women navigating new chapters

  • women on inner journeys

  • women who feel restless, curious, or called

  • women who don’t quite fit into “normal” life and are done pretending they do

If you’ve ever wanted a place to feel understood, supported, connected, grounded, and inspired — you belong here.

A Note from Our Founder

This Village was born from a simple truth:  I keep hearing that people living as nomads get lonely. As an introvert, I don't often find myself feeling lonely.  But I am lucky that my best friend of over 20 years is also a nomad, having her support, understanding and constant contact is the most valuable thing I have.  I belong to some online groups of women that are also wonderfully supportive, but in social media, you mostly talk AT people and not WITH them.  I felt we need more of a community to talk and share that feels more like real friends and real conversations. A community where we truly understand each other and can build lasting, consistent connection in our chaotic, inconsistent lives.

So I created this for all of us:

  • Women living on the road or sea or random homes.
  • Women traveling alone or with a partner.
  • Women living in vehicles of any sort - buses, vans, boats
  • Women moving through life changes.
  • Women exploring new versions of themselves.
  • Even women who weren’t technically “nomads,” but still wandering in some deeper way.

I knew if I could create a space where these women could gather — genuinely — something powerful could happen.

And so Routes & Roots Village was born.And now it’s here for you.

Wherever you wander, you have a place to land.

Welcome home, sister.

We’re glad you’re here.