BORN RESTLESS

The word ‘whimsy’ has been floating around a lot lately. Another one of those random concepts that, seemingly overnight, takes the internet by storm and suddenly holds a hell of a lot more weight and meaning than it did a year ago. We’ve been doing this with language for as long as we can remember, […]

Most people don’t realize that the digital nomad life unravels fast without structure. Everyone is constantly being fed the images of the laptop on the terrace, the golden hour content, the seamless transition between time zones and client calls and creative work. What it doesn’t show you is the system holding it all together behind […]

There is no way to summarize Latin America in a list. I want to say that upfront, because the wonder that is Central and South America resists containment. It’s too alive, too layered, too full of the kind of experiences that don’t translate cleanly into words. But these ten are the ones that I find […]

There is a moment, sometime in the first few hours of your first camping festival, where you realize you’ve just walked into a whole new world. You’ve just pulled into the security line, strangers walking past your car are dressed like hippies or in costumes or not wearing much at all, and everyone looks like […]

There is a version of me somewhere in South America still. 

She’s on a bus with no signal and a window full of Andean sky, thinking she’s just traveling. She doesn’t know yet what’s coming.

Eight months is long enough to forget who you were when you arrived.

And I know this because I’ve tried to remember.