Islamabad just got served How I Got Here5 years ago I crashed a random wedding in Lahore where of all the “WTF small world moments” I’ve had in my life I would run into an acquaintance named Ali Raza, whom I had first met briefly when I spoke at CUNY Baruch only a...
Thanks to Ann Wen again for help with the blog title!A lot of this has been repeated the last time I was in Lahore, but the highlight that I came back for would be the Wagah Border between India and Pakistan. LahoreAfter the Mehndi/Rasm-e-Heena ended at 3am, we...
The last time I was in Prague 19 years ago, I was 11 years old. And I haven’t been back since. So does it count if I really don’t remember anything but this photo? NO IT DOESN’T. Last month, when 7-time monsooner (Luxembourg, Australia, New...
—Above cover photo credit: Mikhael Chai — thanks for that unplanned shot of me standing on the top of Nauru!— I’ve already had my fair share of New Year’s Eve celebrations in far flung corners of the globe:2010 in Cairo, Egypt2011 in...
From Tatev we turned and drove up north towards the town Goris, famous for being the home to the Settlement of old Kores, a series of previous inhabited rock caves similar to the cave homes in Cappadocia. And thus began our final leg of our roadtrip into...
After a long first day in Yerevan, we turned in at around midnight and woke up 8 hours later to catch an early breakfast and get picked up by our local driver Aram, with whom we had coordinated a few days earlier to take us around the outskirts of the city. Our...
“I compared it to taking my first acid trip: Nothing was ever the same for me. I just wanted more of it. If I had to agree to live in one country, or even one city, for the rest of my life, never leaving it, I’d pick Tokyo in a second.” – Anthony...
