“Short stories and travel reports from my life adventures around the globe”.
Exploring Misty Yangshuo, Guangxi Autonomous Province, China. May 2010. Cover photo courtesy of Chensiyuan. As I arrived in Yangshuo—so often described as the most beautiful place in China—I carried a quiet caveat with me. It was something I’d read in a travel guide months earlier: this might be the most spectacular thing you see in […]
Read MoreSnippets of Guilin, Guangxi autonomous region, China. May 2010. Cover photo courtesy of Shujianyang. Looking back, I do wish I’d spent more time in Guangxi—China’s impossibly beautiful, storybook province. But by then, my trip was already beginning to wind down, and I had just a week left to take in a handful of highlights before […]
Read MoreWarriors and Walls: Exploring Xi’an. May 2010. I arrived in Xi’an by train from Pingyao, the journey gliding by in a smooth, slightly hypnotic two hours and forty-five minutes — another quiet triumph for China’s high-speed rail. One moment I was watching Shanxi’s muted landscapes flicker past; the next I was stepping out onto the […]
Read MoreA Visit to the Ancient Walled City of Pingyao. Shanxi Province, China. May 2010. After a year teaching English in a small language school on Beijing’s northeastern fringe, the simple act of leaving the capital felt like letting out a long, deep breath. China’s roads were calling again, thus I answered with an inventive route […]
Read MoreA Visit to the Overlooked Town of Bar in Montenegro. October 2021. Our three-month odyssey around Montenegro was beginning to draw to a close. As our final days in Budva slipped quietly away, we realised there was just enough time for one last field trip before we packed up our lives and moved on. After […]
Read MoreKing’s Beach, Queen’s Beach & Sveti Stefan: Montenegro’s Royal Shores. October 2021. “Montenegro’s most breathtaking and iconic stretch of coastline,” Sladja read, her face lit by the phone screen. “Well… guess we better squeeze that in before we leave.” I agreed at once, though the claim felt bold. Could Sveti Stefan really outshine everything we’d […]
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