Tracee Ellis Ross Talks Journey at T+L WBA Summit

Tracee Ellis Ross describes herself as a “baby of the world”—and the outline matches. She’s held a passport since start, accompanied her mom on international work journeys, and as soon as referred to as glamorous locales like Rome dwelling. Now, she’s generously sharing a number of of her hard-earned journey insights.

“Journey’s only a common a part of my life,” Ross shared on the Journey + Leisure 2025 World’s Greatest Summit in New York Metropolis. “Being on an airplane is common for me.” 

As Ross shared, on her international journeys with household, dwelling in Paris and later in Switzerland for varsity, she “actually discovered the right way to discover dwelling inside myself,” including that journey “allowed me to see the similarities between human beings regardless of the place we’re.”

All these journeys across the globe have served her nicely, particularly now as she kicks off her new Roku unique collection, “Solo, Touring with Tracee Ellis Ross.” In line with Ross, who stars and government produces the present, that is the end result of a long time of solo journey, which started along with her first solo journey at age 25, which she says, fully reshaped her world view. 

“One thing clicked. I’m accountable for my very own happiness,” Ross shared in an unique clip from the present. “A lot of what solo touring is, is about not ready for one thing in an effort to expertise my life.”

Although Ross can be sincere that the way in which she travels is not in some willy-nilly style. For her, it is all in regards to the tight schedule.

“I’m not the adventurer, solo traveler. That isn’t what I am going touring to do,” she stated, including that she prefers calm, magnificence, and many construction. “Each day is stuffed with army precision to ensure that me to do the various issues that I’ve on my plate … so the posh of being is actually what journey is about for me.”

Ross additionally stated she is aware of herself nicely sufficient by no means to pack mild and at all times be ready for no matter occurs on the highway. “I pack for magnificence and catastrophe,” Ross admitted. “I’ve the medical package, after which I’ve all the alternatives of garments relying on whom I’d encounter.”

And whereas she might dream of romantic run-ins and has the impeccable clothes to match, she doesn’t go away logistics to likelihood, making certain her bag can be stuffed with sensible objects, too. “Carry your wipes, guys … carry your individual pillow, carry your medical package,” she stated. “Wipe that loo sink down, wipe off that distant.”

When you’re extra prone to run into Ross on a aircraft than you might be terra firma, simply know you may by no means catch her chowing down on no matter they’re serving for lunch at 35,000 ft. “I don’t eat on the aircraft,” she stated flatly. “You flush the bathroom, it goes, every little thing comes in all places. I seen throughout the pandemic, I’m like, they put together your meals subsequent to the bathroom. Get outta right here.” As an alternative, she’s beginning to pack her meals, or, “I am going to simply starve on the aircraft.” 

The one factor she is going to do, nonetheless, is chug as a lot water as attainable. “I play a recreation with myself on the aircraft: how a lot water can I drink?” she joked, including, “You don’t want to sit down subsequent to me.”

As for jet lag? She’s by no means heard of it. “I don’t consider in jet lag,” Ross stated. “My physique is the place it’s. Once I arrive at a location, I like a shower, it settles my physique … after which I like to sit down outdoors and permit this a part of my physique to face the solar.”

Past the routines and journey hacks, Ross’s message about journey is evident: it is all about selecting your self. “The present for me is actually about not ready to dwell your life,” Ross stated. Now, the one factor we have to await is the primary episode to drop on July 25.