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Category: Nomadism

Traveling Light: “Only What I Can Carry” Photo Project
Adventure, Nomadism, Travel Advice

Traveling Light: “Only What I Can Carry” Photo Project

October 19, 2015May 22, 2020 Toby 2 mins read

Saturday, October 3rd, 2015. Helsinki, Finland. [This is only an excerpt from a longer piece about this project written for elephant journal. For the full […]

Nomadism

Reflections on a Birthday: Wandering, Searching, & Answering the Call

October 12, 2015May 22, 2020 Toby 3 mins read

Yesterday, I turned 24. The past year has been anything but boring as vagabonded my way from Europe to Africa to the U.S. and back, […]

Adventure, Nomadism

I Want to Do All of the Things

October 5, 2015May 22, 2020 Toby 3 mins read

This is not a bucket list. I wrote this list a few weeks ago as the realization dawned on me that, without exaggeration, I want […]

Europe, Nomadism

What is this Feeling? …Nostalgia??

September 15, 2015May 22, 2020 Toby 2 mins read

Stunning views from my seat flying Catania, Sicily to Istanbul (on my way to Stockholm… I should not have opted to fly that way, and […]

Europe, Nomadism

Why Am I Here?

August 22, 2015May 22, 2020 Toby 4 mins read

2:00 a.m. Rome, Italy. Fiumicino Airport. I arrive haggard, disoriented and ready to drop after a red-eye from Detroit, a 12-hour layover in Amsterdam, and […]

Nomadism

Time to Move

January 7, 2015May 22, 2020 Toby 2 mins read

Once upon a time, nomads—largely hunter gatherers or pastoralists—knew it was time to move when the game animals moved on, or the fields became depleted. […]

Nomadism

A Vagabond’s Manifesto

August 20, 2014May 22, 2020 Toby 4 mins read

I believe in coincidence. Happenstance. Chance. It has been responsible for so many of my experiences—too real to ignore—creating connections where I expected none, and […]

In Defense of Aimless Wandering
Asia, Nomadism

In Defense of Aimless Wandering

February 24, 2013May 22, 2020 Toby 4 mins read

Somehow two months have managed to sneak by me since I last posted anything. In that time I have tried every tropical fruit available in […]

Nomadism

Why Travel

August 26, 2012May 22, 2020 Toby 4 mins read

Killing two birds with one stone: First essay of the semester, first blog post! Why?  More often than not, when I informed people this summer […]

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