Personal travel stories and narratives
StoriesA travel writer arrives in Alsace expecting a cute French town and finds something more — a place where German precision and French beauty collided five centuries ago and never separated.
StoriesI floated over concrete faces being swallowed by coral, watched a barracuda patrol a circle of statues, and briefly forgot that I was in the Caribbean and not on another planet.
StoriesDay 1: got lost in fog. Day 3: found a meditation class that changed my mornings. Day 7: didn't want to leave. A solo traveler's diary from Little Lhasa.
StoriesDimitris has lived in Rhodes Old Town for 26 years. He knows which lanes are empty at sunset, where the real moussaka is, and why you should ignore the Colossus.
StoriesA travel journalist's account of reaching the end of the world — 80 km of steppe, a wall of ancient ice, and the sound of a glacier speaking.
StoriesA Lao woman who's run a riverside guesthouse for twelve years shares why the 4,000 Islands are changing, which tourist habits drive locals crazy, and where to find the best sunset.
StoriesI went to Addis for Lucy. I stayed for the injera, the altitude headaches, and the slowest, most intentional cup of coffee I've ever had.
StoriesI stopped in Doha for a layover. Three days later, I was sitting in a 91-year-old architect's masterpiece wondering why no one told me about this city.
StoriesSeven days on Kenya's coast. Dolphins at dawn, colobus monkeys at noon, and dinners in a coral cave by candlelight.
StoriesI timed the tides wrong, a deer ate my ferry ticket, and the fried momiji manju from a 1912 shop became my favorite food memory from Japan.
StoriesSix days of ski runs, mountain bike trails, and the particular joy of eating poutine in a hot tub at 8PM while snow falls on your head.
StoriesSarah moved from Melbourne for the lifestyle. She loves it but has opinions about the parking, the Instagram crowds, and the yoga studio that charges $40 for a class.
