The Tuggle Is Real

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My name is Tuggle. I’m a TV producer and writer with an incessant voice in my head that’s screaming at me to live a life of adventure, despite my best attempts to settle into a routine and just get some damn sleep. I write here about trying to satiate that voice, in addition to other things important to me.

Who does the voice belong to? Maybe it’s my anxiety. Maybe it’s God.  Maybe it’s me – my most essential self, the version of me who says yes to everything, has no fear and wants to squeeze the most out of every single precious second on this terrible, beautiful earth, no matter how painful it can be here sometimes.

The Evolution of The Tuggle is Real

If you want the longer story, here it is – I started this blog in 2013 as a personal experiment. I wanted to see what would happen if I committed to doing one thing a week that scared me. I called the blog An Adventure A Week.

At that point, I was 27 and working non-stop as a reality TV producer, but I needed something to strive for outside of the career I’d thrown myself into for the past 6 years. While I love what I do (and it can very often be an adventure in itself!), it wasn’t satiating that inner voice to work 100 hours a week making TV. I didn’t want to believe that travel bloggers and full-time adventurers were the only people out there really living, doing crazy cool adventurous stuff. I wanted that life for myself, and this was my chance to make that happen.

Turns out, a lot can happen when you start making a habit out of adventure. You meet fascinating people. You learn amazing things about yourself and the world. You notice opportunities you didn’t see before. You get more excited about your days when you start having new things to look forward to. You start wondering if doing the same thing day in and day out is the best option, or even healthy for you.

Sleeping in the open desert in India is one of the things I only told my mom about afterwards.

When I turned 30, I sold most of my possessions, put my career in TV on hold, and set out to look for adventure on a full-time basis. Almost a year later, I returned to the states, to my job, and to my life, with a completely new view of the universe. I took a 5 year break from writing, which meant this blog sat collecting dust. The early years of my 30s were some of the best of my life – I developed incredible life long friendships, my career reached new heights (through insanely hard work!) and I even managed a few adventures in between, including a Kilimanjaro summit and a two month trip around the Mediterranean.

But after the ultimate year of monotony and stress in lockdown (I’m looking at you, 2020), I decided to tap back into that pushy inner voice, dust off the keyboard, and seek out more extraordinary experiences to write about, because dammit – that voice won’t go away. So in 2021, I picked back up where I left off and renamed the blog The Tuggle is Real. 

Shortly there after, my life unraveled in epic fashion over a year. A failed engagement and crushing breakup. A medical scare that started with an ER visit and ended 6 months later with a surgery. The death of my dog. Getting covid. Being forced to find and move into a new place. And the absolutely worst thing imaginable – the sudden death of my sister.

I started writing again out of necessity – I needed a way to process the hardest time of my life and find an outlet for my grief. I’m still wading through it, and I’m not sure who I’ll be on the other side of it. But if there is one thing this adventure experiment has taught me, it’s that we, as humans, are capable of far more than we think we are. We just have to listen to the voice. 

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12 Comments

  • waitandhope44 March 1, 2013 at 8:05 pm

    Thank you for checking out my blog!
    I love your idea of doing something unexpected and out of the ordinary every week. You learn a lot about yourself when you leave the safety of your comfort zone.

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    • Lindsay - An Adventure A Week March 1, 2013 at 8:08 pm

      You’re welcome! Thank you for checking out mine. And I totally agree with you!

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  • Shawn Flaherty March 3, 2013 at 3:20 am

    Hi Lindsay!

    Thanks for the follow and for checking out my blog.

    I think an adventure a week is a great idea! It is good to see younger people doing fun and interesting things with their lives that involve the lost art of travel.

    Good luck on your adventures!

    Shawn

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    • Lindsay - An Adventure A Week March 3, 2013 at 3:21 am

      Thank you! I really appreciate it. And the same goes for you!

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  • 4feet2mouths July 3, 2013 at 5:31 pm

    Lindsay, great idea for a blog. This is long overdo…but, thank you for following our food & travel adventures at the 4feet2mouths blog.

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    • Lindsay - An Adventure A Week July 15, 2013 at 5:47 pm

      Thanks! You’ve got an amazing blog over there….my two favorite subjects are food and travel.

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      • 4feet2mouths July 15, 2013 at 8:05 pm

        Thank you again, nice hearing from you.

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  • Linda Rose September 6, 2013 at 2:50 pm

    Hi Lindsay!
    I’m your mom’s friend and she just told me about your upcoming trip with REI. Sounds fantastic!!! I love traveling, with my camera, and would love to follow your trip!
    We’re down at the beach right now with Vicki Vise and Jane Todd….they all say “hi!”
    Cheers,
    Linda Rose

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    • Lindsay - An Adventure A Week September 26, 2013 at 8:55 pm

      Linda, I heard the beach trip was amazing – hope you guys had a blast!
      I can’t wait for the REI trip, and the rest of the my 2 months in SE Asia…..I am dying for March to get here!
      Lindsay

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  • Saul Tarasoff December 21, 2015 at 5:49 am

    Hi Lindsay,

    This is Saul at GPSmyCity. We are interested in sponsoring a giveaway on your blog for mutual benefits. If you wish to know more about this opportunity, please reply to my email at your earliest convenience. Thank you.

    Best regards,
    Saul Tarasoff,
    sault@gpsmycity.com

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  • Juliana February 5, 2016 at 4:54 am

    Hey Lindsay,
    I bumped into your blog while searching for info for my next trip and I must say I JUST FUCKIG LOVE IT! Can´t stop reading it 🙂 You put into words feelings and thoughts that I have but was not able to organize in my head. And not only that: to put into practice! Just feel like I could have written all of this, except a lot less clearly and beautifully :p You have shaked things a little bit for me, so thanks for this! Your blog is a great reminder that life is much more than worldly success.

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    • Lindsay - An Adventure A Week February 6, 2016 at 12:11 am

      Juliana, thank you so much! I’m so glad you like it…..great minds think alike 🙂 Hope you’re having a kick-ass day, wherever you are.

      Reply

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    Hi! I'm Tuggle. I'm a writer and TV producer based in Los Angeles. Wandering around a foreign city half-lost while looking for my next snack is me "in my element." I once climbed Kilimanjaro on a drunken dare. More about me here.

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