When in Sri Lanka, the locals always want to ask me what I think of it. These are usually Uber drivers bringing me to or from the airport, which for some reason, between going to the Maldives, coming back, popping over to Indonesia, then coming back, I did a lot of this June. (Sidenote: from the […]
How to Take Ethereal Low-Light Pictures
I always thought that there was some big secret that everyone who took amazing low-light and long exposure photos knew that I didn’t know. I figured it was probably a difficult technique or maybe something that only fancy cameras could do, until doing some research, playing around with my camera settings, and realizing that it […]
A Camper Van Adventure in South Tyrol, Italy
Hello from sunny and green South Tyrol in Italy, a region you may have noticed I can’t stop coming back to. What I love about it now is the same feeling I had when I came here the first time and again six months later with my mother – it’s just so darn unexpected and […]
An Open Letter to My Inner Negativity
Oh, hey there negativity. Can’t say I’m pleased to see you again. You know what’s cool? When you aren’t around and I never even notice that you’re gone. I really don’t miss you at all, but then you just show back up at some of the worst possible times and, though I want to be […]
Why Making a Five-Year Plan is a Waste of Time
I was recently talking to a friend of a friend who likes to psychoanalyze people. He got me pretty spot on, but just on a very superficial level. He observed that I travel the world, mostly alone, and like a lot of people, he was simultaneously impressed and troubled by this. In one of my […]