Epiphanies on the Road – A collection of revelations while traveling
- The Tagline I’d Be Proud Of January 13, 2025Six years ago, during our entire week without a signal, data, or internet and wandering through the otherworldly landscapes of Socotra Island, Yemen, my friend and co-guide at the time, Pier Doyon, asked me a question that caught me off guard: “What would your title be if you visited every country in the world?” I initially ...
- Bujum-bura My Head in the Sand January 12, 2025It’s nice to wake up in front of our airport gate, again. For the 3rd time and second to last time back in Addis Ababa as our home base for our Central Africa trip, it was another 2 hour and 45 minute flight from Addis Ababa and this time to Burundi, our Central African odyssey that ...
- Is This The End of an Era? January 6, 2025This trip feels different. I’m on what will likely be my very last Monsoon trip that embodies the spirit of how this all began: a whirlwind journey through multiple countries no one in our group has been to before. This time, it’s Chad, Niger, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of Congo, and ...
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Post-travel Reflections – The usual symptoms of post-travel withdrawal
- The Tagline I’d Be Proud Of January 13, 2025Six years ago, during our entire week without a signal, data, or internet and wandering through the otherworldly landscapes of Socotra Island, Yemen, my friend and co-guide at the time, Pier Doyon, asked me a question that caught me off guard: “What would your title be if you visited every country in the world?” I initially ...
- Easter Island: It’s A Rap-a Nui! December 4, 2024Been on all our list, it has its own emoji 🗿, it’s been in the collective consciousness of all those who travel, and like Faroe Islands, it deserves to be visited before you grow too old. The 8 of us jumped on making this trip happen after Thanksgiving and here we are. LATAM Airlines of Chile ...
- Tomorrowland 2024: Life July 23, 2024From Bruges the 14 of us boarded one of the frequent half an hourly trains to Brussels. Once back at Brussels train station and parting ways with Maria, Kenneth, Juliet, and Edgar who would eschew Tomorrowland for 5 days in Antwerp and Ghent, the rest of us took the metro and tram to our lodgings at ...
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