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61 countries. The point was never the number. The point was what kept changing because I went.

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Asia

The first test of my Three Passes trek happened before I took a step. We spent a day waiting for a flight…

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Before I went to Iraqi Kurdistan, most of what I knew about Iraq had arrived through headlines. Conflict, danger, instability. Those things…

Europe

I came into Poland by train from Berlin. My family has roots here, and I still have relatives near Kraków, so crossing…

Become

A friend at my hostel told me about a way up to the fortress above Kotor. There was a main route and…

Albania

I left Austin expecting to spend eleven months alone. Somewhere between an unfinished chess game in Spain and a rented car in…

Africa

I went to Pakistan for the mountains and to Jordan for Petra. I didn’t plan those trips around hospitality, though it became…

Africa

There is a particular loneliness to long solo trips that rarely makes it into the photographs. You can spend a day surrounded…

Africa

I crossed from Morocco into Mauritania and eventually into Senegal without taking a flight. The whole trip took about six weeks. On…

Africa

By the time I reached Dakar, I had spent about two weeks traveling overland from Morocco through Mauritania and into Senegal. I…