Notes from a small life of travel
This is a quiet site about places that mattered and slow ways of getting there. Long-form essays from cities I have loved, practical guides for travelers who want to pack lighter and move slower, and the occasional recipe carried home in a notebook.
There is no schedule. New posts arrive when they arrive — usually two or three a month, sometimes nothing for six weeks, sometimes a flurry of pieces from a single long trip. If you want to be notified when there is something new, the easiest way is to bookmark this page and check back.
What you will find
- Travel — long pieces from individual cities and regions, with the kind of detail that is only useful if you might go
- Travel tips — practical posts on packing, gear, hauling yourself across countries on a budget, and other matters of logistics
- Food — recipes carried home and pieces about food culture in the places I have eaten well
- Essays — slower-moving pieces about the underlying habit of travel: attention, journaling, letter writing, solo travel, the long way around
Start anywhere. The most recent posts are below.
Or browse by what you are in the mood for
- A long essay → start with “On letter writing” or “Why I started keeping a travel journal”
- A city to visit next → try “A weekend in Lisbon” or “Five days in Kyoto”
- Something practical → “How to pack for two weeks in one carry-on” or “A camera, a notebook, a pen”
- Something about food → “The art of slow cooking” or “Naples and the religion of pizza margherita”
How this site is made
This site runs on WordPress with a theme called Wandermark, made by Key Brains. The fonts are Fraunces (the serif) and Inter Tight (the body). The color palette is bone, ink, and a single accent of electric yellow. The whole thing is designed to disappear behind the writing, which is the only thing about a website that really matters.