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  • Update: I’m no longer leading Bar Crawls

                  I never imagined I’d hit my limit with Bar Crawls one week after posting a blog about how I lead bar crawls. Truth is, I initially wrote my blog in May, and I delayed posting about it because I felt I had more relevant things to post this past summer. Last year I got…

    boozefreeinmusiccity

    September 18, 2025
    Alcohol free activities in Nashville
    Adventure, alcohol-free, boozefree, food, life, nashville, nashvilletourist, sober, sobercurious, sobriety, travel, writing
  • Sober… and leading Bar Crawls on Broadway

    Hi, my name’s Malia, I don’t drink alcohol and every so often I lead bar crawls down Broadway. What kind of sentence is that? Anytime I tell people I started leading bar crawls last summer; they are shocked and amazed at how someone can be around drunk people in Downtown Nashville at night- when they…

    boozefreeinmusiccity

    September 3, 2025
    Alcohol free activities in Nashville
    barcrawl, barcrawls, boozefree, life, mental-health, nashville, nashvilletourist, sober, sobriety, travel, writing
  • My trip to Cuba

    I got back from Cuba over a month ago, and I’m finally posting about it. It took me a second to gather my thoughts, and my feelings, and what exactly I wanted to say. When I first got back everyone was checking in to see how my trip went. My manager, who helped get me…

    boozefreeinmusiccity

    August 19, 2025
    Alcohol free world travel
    60th country, alcoholfree, boozefree, Cuba, Havana, history, sober, sobercurious, SoberTravels, sobriety, travel, World Travel
  • 60 countries and counting…

                  I just got back from visiting my 60th country, and it was Cuba. I work full-time at a travel company, and each year, we get to staff a tour. I’ve been with my company for quite a while at this point (going on 11 years here in a couple of months), so yes, I’m…

    boozefreeinmusiccity

    July 15, 2025
    Alcohol free world travel
    60countries, Adventure, alcoholfree, boozefree, life, sober, sobercurious, SoberTravels, travel, travel-tips, World Travel, writing
  • To drink or not to drink when traveling abroad… that is the question

    For the past 10 years, I’ve been lucky enough to have travel be part of my job. I have been able to travel to both domestic and international locations, and for many years having the ability to drink alcohol for free was a major perk. When I first started at my company, I always thought…

    boozefreeinmusiccity

    June 3, 2025
    Alcohol free world travel, Uncategorized
    alcohol, alcohol-free, boozefree, Czech Republic, Food Tours, health, Japan, mental-health, NonAlcoholicTravels, Prague, sober, sobercurious, SoberTravels, sobriety, South Africa, World Travel
  • How do you make friends as an adult?

    The million dollar question- how do you meet new people and make new friends as an adult? Since I decided to stop drinking alcohol, a year ago, I sat down and did some reflecting. Yes, I love the original friends I made in Nashville, but I also wanted to expand my horizons and meet other…

    boozefreeinmusiccity

    May 11, 2025
    Uncategorized
    alcohol-free, alcoholfree, boozefree, friends, howtomakefriends, life, music, nashville, relationships, sober, sobercurious, sobriety, travel
  • 365 days of no alcohol… and counting

    And just like that, a year has gone by without drinking any alcohol. I have made it one trip around the sun without drinking. A year ago, I never imagined I’d be standing in this place today. I had no intention of quitting drinking. I just needed a break. My last day of drinking alcohol…

    boozefreeinmusiccity

    April 1, 2025
    Uncategorized
    1 year, alcohol, alcohol-free, alcoholfree, anniversary, boozefree, health, mental-health, nashville, nashvilletourist, recovery, sober, sobercurious, sobriety
  • How do you entertain friends coming to Nashville… when you no longer drink?

    I decided to wait to write this blog until I actually experienced having my friends come to town this past weekend. Sometimes I write whatever I can ahead of time, or if something has already happened- and I have the time- I’ll try to get whatever I can down on paper (or make sure it’s…

    boozefreeinmusiccity

    March 27, 2025
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    alcohol, alcoholfree, birthday, boozefree, Broadwaybars, calisober, hostingfriends, life, linedancing, mental-health, nashville, nashvilletourist, sober, sobercurious, soberish, sobriety
  • “Nashville has branded itself as a Booze City”

    I can now say that one of the best things I’ve done has been being vocal about quitting alcohol. For the past 11 months, unless I interacted with you in-person or at work, I didn’t bring it up. My Nashville friends have been super supportive about my decisions, but it never dawned on me to…

    boozefreeinmusiccity

    March 4, 2025
    Alcohol free activities in Nashville, Friends in town, Uncategorized
    alcohol, alcohol-free, boozefree, health, lubbock, nashville, reformedpartygirl, sober, sobriety, vistingfriends
  • Top date spots- if you’re not drinking alcohol in Nashville

    Back in June of 2024, I was getting ready to go out on my first date as an alcohol-free person. This was a date with someone I had matched with on a dating app. I really didn’t know how to bring up the fact that I stopped drinking- and I didn’t. My profile has always…

    boozefreeinmusiccity

    February 12, 2025
    Uncategorized
    alcoholfree, booze free, dating, food, intentionaldating, localsguide, mocktails, nashville, nashvilletourist, sober, sobercurious, soberdating, travel
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