TobyIt’s 2009, and I’m eighteen. Paris is home for the year. It’s a chilly night in early winter. Ten or eleven o’clock. I’ve just gotten […]
Category: Adventure
The Wild Song and Where to Find It
Seek. Wildness. The signals have been clear for a while now. Years. This is one of the most important things we can do in our overly […]
7 Hardcore Life Lessons Travel Teaches Faster
Travel is a relentless teacher. There are no bathroom breaks, no question and answer sessions, and no weeks off for study or review. We jump […]
The Girl Who was Afraid of Everything—Fiction
The Girl Who Was Afraid of Everything. (A break from the usual—story time!) *** Once there was a girl who was afraid of everything. She […]
When You Don’t Want to be Friendly and Open and Curious
That’s okay. It’s normal. Go ahead and hermit. I stare resolutely out the window of my Uber at the windy Cape Town day, quite […]
The Rough and Wrinkled Side of Adventure
Sunday, 23 April. Porto, Portugal. Welcome to the world of unplanned adventure. It’s messy. It’s unphotogenic. It’s wild-ish. It’s kind-hearted French tourists warning you that […]
The Strangeness
“There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.” — Robert Louis Stevenson Sorry, Robert Stevenson, on two counts. First, […]
The Wild-Tame Peculiarity of Safari (and 10 Wild Photos)
Sabi Sand Game Reserve, Mpumalanga, South Africa A male leopard wakes from his nap and stretches lazily. Three safari cars—Land Rovers, I think—have parked just […]
12 Ways to Move/Travel to a New City/Country Where you Don’t Know Anyone—and Totally Rock It
I write about venturing into the unknown often. You might say it’s my favorite theme—in life and in art. You could say it’s my greatest […]
Johnny Cash and Slow Travel
8:15 a.m. Self-Service Restaurant “Mediterraneo.” Grandi Navi Veloci ferry from Tangier to Barcelona. I look up from my breakfast—a somewhat sad assortment of boxed orange […]