Asia
The Long Way Around Everest: My Three Passes Trek in Nepal
The first test of my Three Passes trek happened before I took a step. We spent a day waiting for a flight…
Field Notes
Notes from
the middle of it.
Shorter dispatches across Explore, Become and Build.
Not everything needs a lesson. Sometimes noticing is enough.
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Smaller entries. Same life.
A photograph, a quick founder lesson, a workout update, a place, an idea I do not need 1,500 words to explain.
Explore
Ten Days in Iraqi Kurdistan, Beyond the Version I Knew
Before I went to Iraqi Kurdistan, most of what I knew about Iraq had arrived through headlines. Conflict, danger, instability. Those things…
Europe
My First Walk Through Warsaw
I came into Poland by train from Berlin. My family has roots here, and I still have relatives near Kraków, so crossing…
Become
I Took the Wrong Trail Above Kotor
A friend at my hostel told me about a way up to the fortress above Kotor. There was a main route and…
Albania
The Trip That Stopped Being Solo
I left Austin expecting to spend eleven months alone. Somewhere between an unfinished chess game in Spain and a rented car in…
Africa
The People Who Made Room for Me
I went to Pakistan for the mountains and to Jordan for Petra. I didn’t plan those trips around hospitality, though it became…
Africa
I Kept Trying to Pay. They Kept Refusing.
There is a particular loneliness to long solo trips that rarely makes it into the photographs. You can spend a day surrounded…
Africa
From Morocco to Senegal Without Getting on a Plane
I crossed from Morocco into Mauritania and eventually into Senegal without taking a flight. The whole trip took about six weeks. On…
Africa
A Week at a Surf Camp in Senegal, Despite Being Terrible at Surfing
By the time I reached Dakar, I had spent about two weeks traveling overland from Morocco through Mauritania and into Senegal. I…
Africa
Pay Attention Before You Decide What a Place Is
A place becomes smaller the moment I arrive certain about it. Certain that I know what the neighborhood will feel like. Certain…
Africa
Twenty Hours on an Iron-Ore Train in Mauritania
The ski goggles were the first clue that this wasn’t going to be a comfortable train ride. My host in Nouakchott helped…
Africa
The Water That Wasn’t There
The bus from Agadir to Dakhla took twenty-one hours. I sat near the front, watching the landscape through the windshield and talking…