I love taking photos while traveling.
A camera is the closest thing to a time machine that we’ll get.
For me, there’s nothing like capturing a badass photo that I’d be proud to hang up in my home and that transports me back to a unique place and time.
As a hiking enthusiast, I have the most fun shooting landscape and nature photography, but while traveling, I fire away at anything that looks cool.
Lonely Planet has featured a few of my photos and published my photo essay about the Great Smoky Mountains, but I still have a lot to learn!
I love writing about my travels.
While studying in Ghana (2007) and interning in Argentina (2011), I had a blast blogging about my [mis]adventures abroad (shoutout to my small but loyal group of Xanga followers from back in the day).
Whether it was the first time I saw a waterfall, when I discovered that Argentinians make crappy pasta sauce, or when a Ghanaian stranger led my friends and I through a field in the pitch black of night and joked that he could, “…take you out for kill, and nooo one would know…”, I always enjoyed writing about awesome, crappy, and bizarrely amusing travel experiences.
Fast forward to 2018 – Inspired by John Krasinski, whom called his critically-acclaimed movie A Quiet Place a love letter to his kids, I decided to write literal love letters to my kid (thanks for the inspiration, Big Tuna!).
Whether my son reads my letters when he’s an emo teen or a crusty senior citizen, my goals are to:
1) Entertain him / not put him to sleep
2) Help him to prioritize travel experiences
3) Inspire him to live it up on his own adventures
I give him my honest, uncensored perspective on my travel experiences, because if I don’t keep it real for my kid, who will?
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