Personal travel stories and narratives
StoriesAfter 15 years in Windhoek, I've watched Namibia transform from Africa's best-kept secret to a bucket-list destination. Here's what the guidebooks miss.
StoriesA day-by-day journal from one of the world's most remote archipelagos — where immigration stamps a pledge into your passport and the underwater world makes every previous ocean experience feel like a rehearsal.
StoriesSleeping on dunes, riding camels at dawn, and wading through a turquoise wadi — my unfiltered week camping with Bedouin families in Oman's Sharqiyah Sands.
StoriesHvar gets 2,724 hours of sunshine per year. After a week there, watching the light shift from blue morning to golden evening to pink sunset, I understood why people don't leave.
StoriesHearing Afrobeats through headphones is like looking at a photo of the ocean. Being inside it at a Lagos show is like being caught in the wave.
StoriesAncient amphitheaters, a 12-euro cacio e pepe that made me close my eyes, and the evening when Rome stopped being a destination and became a feeling.
StoriesHe runs a bar in Fremantle and has watched Perth transform from 'Dullsville' to one of Australia's best cities. Here's what Dave wants visitors to know.
StoriesDay 1 started with a missed taxi and ended with a stranger inviting me to dinner. That's Dakar.
StoriesSeven days of Powell's Books rabbit holes, food cart discoveries at 11PM, and learning why Portlanders don't use umbrellas.
StoriesKenji runs a tiny yakitori bar in Shinsekai. He's brutally honest about what tourists get wrong and what they should actually do.
StoriesI stood at the lip of a 108-meter waterfall in a natural rock pool and looked down. Then I tried to explain it to someone who wasn't there. This is that attempt.
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.
