I have spent most of my working life helping people take big, complicated trips. But the part I actually care about is smaller than that: paying attention on purpose, wherever you happen to be standing.
The philosophy
Indie travel: go your own way, slowly, on your own terms.
- The indie travel manifesto
- Co-creating the indie travel manifesto
- Discovery vs escape
- Why I travel
- What has travel taught me
- Slowing down in a modern world
Curiosity as practice
The small version. Most of exploring is just looking harder at what is already in front of you.
- What is under that log?
- Front windshield
- What is hometown travel?
- Simple moments
- Zen and Robert Pirsig
- Surprise myself
Going anyway
On fear, paranoia, and the excuses that keep people home.
- Just go
- Fear and travel
- Cultural paranoia: don't be a panic merchant
- Do you know panic merchant?
- Is this it?
Travelling well
The practical layer. How to move through a place without wrecking it.
- Contributing to the local economy when travelling
- Local interactions preferred
- Packing light and simple
- Options over possessions
- Staying healthy while traveling
- What is ecotourism?
Where I have been
I kept a year-in-cities list for a long stretch. It is a strange and useful way to see a decade.