TobyMusafir is more than a ship. She’s an ideal—a vision and symbol of another way of life. Those who built her and those who meet her […]
Tag: slow travel
How to Return when there is No Turning Back
The plane lands. The boat docks. The train whistles as it arrives at the station. You step off. Pause. Look around. Friends and loved ones wait […]
Microadventure in Costa Rica: 3 Snippets of Daily Life
Whether I’m hopping continents or battling insects in my jungle house, life is always some kind of a wild ride… or a microadventure! These days, […]
Pure Light, Pure Life: A Costa Rica Snapshot
At the edge of Ciudad Colón, Costa Rica, in 6 am light The light falling through my windows at 6 am cleans the sleep from my […]
What to Do with a 10-Hour Train Ride
I’ve done that thing again. That thing where I look at plane tickets, look at train tickets, enter all available data into an elaborate equation […]
In Defense of Aimless Wandering, Revisited
I’m riding from Sweden to Finland on a ferry named Grace, pondering over aimless wandering. I’ll come back to that. Grace is probably ten stories […]
This is What Conscious Travel Looks Like
I wrote this for a masters application, but I think it’s worth sharing with more than a few admissions officers! What follows is an incomplete, […]
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 […]
This Is Why We Walk—Maybe
Ancient Practice in the Modern Landscape Sixteen kilometers of open road. No turns. No twists. The trees are thick on either side, and I’m […]
Did You Find What You Were Looking For? (Camino Reflections, Part 10000)
My last visit to London, in July of this year, I had dinner with a former classmate. We had taken “Intro to Buddhism” together. I […]