A platform for travel experiences, perspectives, and stories that put people, place, politics, and cultures at the heart of it all.
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Field notes and explorations of countries, states, cities, towns, villages, hamlets, and more.
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Political. Painful. Painstaking. Perception-bending. Heart-breaking. Faith-shattering. Faith-reaffirming. Heart mending. Beautiful. Breathtaking. Hideous. Selfish. Giving. A privilege. A blessing. A gift. A right. A glimpse. A deep dive. To move. To stay. To hold on. To surrender. An escape. A homecoming. Everything. Nothing.
Stories
Truths and perspectives—plain or complicated—rooted in people, politics, heritage, land, and everything else.
We are told that stories are living beings, they grow, they develop, they remember, they change not in their essence, but sometimes in their dress. They are shared and shaped by the land and the culture and the teller, so that one story may be told widely and differently. Sometimes only a fragment is shared, showing just one face of a many faceted story, depending on its purpose. So it is with the stories shared here.
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Collected wisdom from lived experiences of the self and others on how to travel in a way that’s better for all—the people, the place, the planet.
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