Category : Travel

Ill never forget standing on a cliff in Santorini, with one hand holding the gyro and the other trying to take a photo with my phone where every way I looked or turned it still encapsulated how smallI felt. It didn’t work. No photo ever really does. That trip had

Without Losing Your Mind Last summer, my friend Tariq showed up at the airport for his flight to Istanbul only to realize his hotel booking was for the following week. Not the following day. The following week. He had made the reservation months earlier, screenshot it once, and never looked

My bag was half-packed before I even booked the flight. That is what happens when you have been putting off travel for too long. You hit a point where you stop researching and just go. Last spring, I booked a last-minute trip to a place I knew almost nothing about,

My cousin called me stupid for spending four days hiking in rain. Not jokingly stupid. Genuinely, sincerely confused about why I had taken time off work, flown to Scotland, and spent most of it soaking wet on a ridge in the Cairngorms where visibility dropped to about fifteen meters by

A couple of years back, my colleague Rania came back from a trip to Bolivia and I asked her the usual thing — how was it, was it worth it, all that. She just pulled out her phone, showed me a photo, and went quiet. Not in a dramatic way.

Standing on the Edge of a Volcano at Sunrise Nobody warned me that the ground would be warm beneath my boots. Stranding at the rim of Mount Batur in Bali at 5 AM, watching the sky shift from black to deep orange while steam rose from the crater below —