Albania was the kind of country I visited with zero prior knowledge. I fell in love with it very quickly. I checked into my hostel, set my bag down next to my bunk bed, plugged my phone into the outlet and stepped out onto the small balcony overlooking the Illyria square in Durres, Albania, theContinue reading “Durres, Albania – July 2018”
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Hamburg, Germany – July 2018
My attempt to describe Hamburg will surely fall short, a spectacular place I visited for a mere forty-eight hours last summer. The experience was so fleeting that any attempt to sufficiently assess the large, profound German metropolis will undoubtedly misfire. In spite of that, the fleeting experience was a vivid one, a unique, alluring cityContinue reading “Hamburg, Germany – July 2018”
Sitges, Spain – February 2018
“Tu Pasas Por Mi Casa Pero Tu Recuerdo Permanece” A forty- five minute excursion on a bus from the Barcelona airport led a group of friends and myself to Sitges, a town of which I’d never been aware before my arrival to Europe a few months prior. My mind would always immediately drift to BarcelonaContinue reading “Sitges, Spain – February 2018”
First Post
This blog is by and large an experiment. I’ve been traveling consistently for over ten years now and I’ll be using this platform to keep track of retrospective musings on these beautiful places. I’ll write about the adventures I’ve been on, the difficult times, the places that shocked me, and the ones I fell inContinue reading “First Post”
The Journey Begins
Thanks for joining me! Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. — Izaak Walton
Bird On the Wire 