Note: for fans of noodle soups and good hangover food. Annandale, the D.C. suburb that sits right inside the beltway next to Fairfax, has the best food in the region. It’s filled with delicious cuisines including Szechuan, Vietnamese, Peruvian, Mexican, Japanese, Indian, and perhaps most famously Korean barbecue. Moreover there are mouthwatering hybrids and fusionsContinue reading “My 5 Favorite Restaurants in Annandale, Virginia”
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My album of the week: Maciré (Kar Kar) – Boubacar Traoré
Blues from Mali, for fans of Tinariwen, Ali Farka Touré, and any West African sound. You’ve heard Blues from Chicago and Mississippi. Maybe you’ve heard some Piedmont pickers, or John Lee Hooker’s one-chord style from Detroit. If you’ve enjoyed the latter, or any of the above categories for that matter, then I wish to directContinue reading “My album of the week: Maciré (Kar Kar) – Boubacar Traoré”
Train Ride through Central Thailand – February, 2020
I sat in a second-class compartment. My suitcase barely fitted on the overhang; half of it precariously hung over the edge. The seats were a combination of faded beige and hot pink, the color worn away from the passage of time. I sat on a train in the Bangkok station. It was still morning. IContinue reading “Train Ride through Central Thailand – February, 2020”
Beijing during COVID-19 – January 2019
Western travelers often say that their first trip East surprised them in unexpected ways. Nothing could have prepared me for my own trip. I arrived in China on the last week of January at the beginning of the Lunar new year. As I landed in Beijing, the plane descended upon a cyclone of smog inContinue reading “Beijing during COVID-19 – January 2019”
Aramunt Vell, Catalonia
Visiting an abandoned village in the heart of Catalan country in 2019. For the past fifty years, numerous villages in Catalonia have sat as skeletons, rotting away due to abandonment. The ghosts of communities, markets, homes, and cafes linger in the soft breeze at the foothills of the Pyrenees. One such place I visited wasContinue reading “Aramunt Vell, Catalonia”
Chefchaouen, Morocco – June 2019
“…There’s no real guidebook to Morocco, no way of knowing where the long trail of the Rif is going to land one…” – Edith Wharton During the Spanish Reconquista, thousands of Muslims and Jews fled the mountains of Sierra Nevada by order of Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile as they unitedContinue reading “Chefchaouen, Morocco – June 2019”
Portugal – January 2019
At the beginning of 2019, my partner and I went to Portugal. It was my first time there. This piece will be about the food, colonialism, monuments, and the strange relationship it has with the country I currently reside in: Andorra. Normally, I try not to write about food as I consider it to beContinue reading “Portugal – January 2019”
Himara, Albania – July 2018
A local described the color of the bus as “sour milk.” What the hell does that even mean? I asked myself. I waited with a couple of fellow Americans I’d met earlier that day during breakfast in Durres, Albania, a beautiful city bordering the Adriatic Sea. I’d spent three days there and wasContinue reading “Himara, Albania – July 2018”
Uruguay – August 2015 (ish)
Montevideo street art, a failed attempt at driving manual, biking Punta Del Este, and an unfinished Trump building. The ferry from Buenos Aires to Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay, takes a little over an hour. I was traveling with three girls I’d met through my study abroad program many years ago. They were fromContinue reading “Uruguay – August 2015 (ish)”
Durres, Albania – July 2018
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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