There's a particular kind of exhaustion in celiac travel that has nothing to do with jet lag. It comes from sustained uncertainty — the calculation that never fully switches off. Here's what actually prevents it.

The calculation begins before the menu arrives. Traveling with celiac disease means being somewhere beautiful while part of your attention never fully arrives — and learning, over time, what it takes to change that.

The line that started everything was so casual he probably doesn't remember saying it. A first date, a comment about food, and the realization that changed how we travel.