Personal travel stories and narratives
StoriesAnand runs a homestay in Alleppey and has strong opinions about houseboat scams, monsoon travel, and why you should eat porotta with beef fry at least once.
StoriesNinety miles of cliffs, fog, redwoods, and a waterfall that drops onto a beach you can't reach. I've driven it four times and I'll drive it forty more.
StoriesWhite temples, black houses, blue shrines — one northern Thai city's obsession with monumental art is rewriting what a temple visit can be.
StoriesDay 1: I drove 400 hairpin turns to reach Cilaos. Day 3: I walked into a village with no roads. Day 5: I hiked across a moonscape to an active volcano. Reunion is the hiking trip nobody talks about.
StoriesA travel journalist who listens to Mahler discovers why a $5 tip and a honky-tonk barstool can change your relationship with music.
StoriesDay-by-day diary of a week hopping between Tenerife, La Gomera, and Lanzarote — from Teide's summit to cloud forests, volcanic wine, and the deepest blue I've ever seen.
Stories900 meters above the valley floor, a monastery clings to a cliff face that shouldn't hold anything. Getting there nearly broke me. I'd do it again tomorrow.
StoriesAna moved from Lisbon to Ponta Delgada eleven years ago. She hasn't looked back, but she has opinions about what tourists get wrong.
StoriesCycling through bike lanes at 7AM, getting emotional over a 2,000-year-old bog body, and discovering that Denmark's second city has more soul than the first.
StoriesNo WiFi, no phones, no other humans for miles — just me, reef sharks, and the clearest sky I've ever seen on Bangaram Island.
StoriesDay-by-day diary from Croatia's party island — but also its lavender island, its wine island, and the island where I watched the Adriatic turn pink from a 16th-century fortress.
StoriesA dhow sail at sunset, a dugong sighting at Two Mile Reef, and the kind of silence that makes you realize how loud your normal life is.
