Journeys Without Destinations: Exploring Places by Following Smells, Sounds, and Shadows
We have been conditioned to travel in straight lines. Our vacations are plotted on maps with bold, red arrows. Our walks are tracked by apps […]
We have been conditioned to travel in straight lines. Our vacations are plotted on maps with bold, red arrows. Our walks are tracked by apps […]
We inhabit a world that has been painstakingly mapped. Our phones vibrate with turn-by-turn directions, leading us from A to B with clinical precision. We […]
I take into account standing on a cliffside as a toddler, the salt spray stinging my face, watching a gull dangle immobile in the air. […]
There is a map of the arena that exists outside of atlases and beyond the sparkling screen of your telephone. It is etched now not […]
India, a land blessed with amazing non-secular strength, harbors endless temples—many misplaced to the pages of records, shrouded with the useful resource of time, or […]
New Zealand. Aotearoa. The Land of the Long White Cloud. It conjures pictures: emerald fjords cutting through mountains, infinite coastlines battered by wild seas, and […]
The plane touched down in Tokyo just beyond the middle of the night. Outside the window, a sea of unusual kanji glowed towards the moist […]
Let’s be honest—traveling as a woman comes with a unique mental checklist. Safety. Comfort. Respect. Connection. The worry of being stared at, followed, or misunderstood […]
Forget choosing between ancient temples and cutting-edge cafes. Or deciding if you want hiking trails or hologram concerts. In 2025, there’s one Asian city that […]
Dusty maps that just slapped the name “Tuticorin” on the place must be thrown away. Stepping into Thoothukudi spells a feast for the senses: a […]
We walk through a forest and see trees. We gaze across a prairie and see grass. We look at a coral reef and see a […]
There’s a world that exists just beyond the edges of our daylight perception. As we retreat indoors, drawing, there’s a world that lies just beyond […]
We walk through forests, gaze across meadows, paddle through wetlands, and often we see… scenery. A backdrop to our human dramas. But below the rustling […]
Forget the marble halls and tailored suits for a moment. Step outside. Listen to the sunrise refrain not as birdsong, but as a complex community […]
We spend lifetimes building walls. Walls of ordinariness, of ambition, of cautiously built identities. We polish the veneer of control, convincing ourselves the world bends […]
The jungle doesn’t sleep. Ever. At dawn, a howler monkey’s roar shatters the mist—a primal alarm clock for creatures below. Somewhere, a leaf quivers, not […]