Tracee Ellis Ross Talks Journey at T+L WBA Summit

Tracee Ellis Ross describes herself as a “little one of the world”—and the outline matches. She’s held a passport since beginning, accompanied her mom on world work journeys, and as soon as referred to as glamorous locales like Rome residence. Now, she’s generously sharing a couple 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 world journeys with household, residing in Paris and later in Switzerland for varsity, she “actually realized the right way to discover residence inside myself,” including that journey “allowed me to see the similarities between human beings irrespective of the place we’re.”

All these journeys across the globe have served her properly, particularly now as she kicks off her new Roku unique sequence, “Solo, Touring with Tracee Ellis Ross.” In response to Ross, who stars and govt produces the present, that is the end result of many years of solo journey, which started together with her first solo journey at age 25, which she says, utterly 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 with a purpose to expertise my life.”

Although Ross can also be trustworthy that the way in which she travels is not in some willy-nilly vogue. For her, it is all concerning 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. “Day by day is full of army precision to ensure that me to do the various issues that I’ve on my plate … so the posh of being is absolutely what journey is about for me.”

Ross additionally stated she is aware of herself properly sufficient by no means to pack mild and all the time be ready for no matter occurs on the street. “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 depart logistics to probability, guaranteeing her bag can also be full of sensible objects, too. “Carry your wipes, guys … deliver your individual pillow, deliver your medical package,” she stated. “Wipe that rest room 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 will 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 every single place. I observed through 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 will simply starve on the aircraft.” 

The one factor she is going to do, nonetheless, is chug as a lot water as potential. “I play a sport with myself on the aircraft: how a lot water can I drink?” she joked, including, “You do not need 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 exterior and permit this a part of my physique to face the solar.”

Past the routines and journey hacks, Ross’s message about journey is obvious: it is all about selecting your self. “The present for me is absolutely 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.