My grandmother traveled the world on cargo and steamer ships — to the Middle East to buy oriental rugs, to Hong Kong for tailored clothing, to Mexico and South America. Places most people only saw in atlases. She wasn’t doing it for Instagram or bucket lists; those didn’t exist yet. She just went. Hearing those stories as a kid planted something in me that I didn’t know how to name until I booked a last-minute flight to London in 2017 and came home changed.
Since then, I’ve been back to England twice, wandered Portugal’s back roads, gotten completely turned around in Florence, stood in front of Gaudí’s unfinished cathedral in Barcelona and just stared, spent time in Christmas markets across Brussels, Strasbourg, and Nuremberg, and most recently made my way through Vienna, Salzburg, Zermatt, Lucerne, and Zürich. Peru is next.
What I’m drawn to tends to be the same wherever I go: old things, quiet streets, and places where you can feel time has actually passed. History over beaches. Walking over tours. One good museum over three rushed ones.
I travel carry-on only, which is its own philosophy. When you can only bring what fits in one bag, you get honest about what actually matters.
This site is where I keep track of where I’ve been and what I’ve learned along the way, partly for other people, partly so I don’t forget.
These are the things I kept looking up over and over, so I built them here.
Behind the login is a set of tools for running your own trips: itineraries, travel documents, a currency wallet and loyalty points. Accounts are granted case by case, and you can request one.
If you want to follow along, I’m also on YouTube. And if you want to support the site, you can buy me some chocolate.
In an era when AI is often used to generate low-quality content, I want to be transparent about how I develop and edit my website with AI proofreading tools. The journal entries reflect only my personal thoughts and experiences. I rely on AI tools to catch grammatical mistakes and improve the flow of my writing. Since my thinking isn’t always linear, I find every bit of help useful.