I still remember the moment my rental car crested the final hill, revealing Walvis Bay's sprawling lagoon dotted with thousands of pink flamingos against the backdrop of massive sand dunes. It was one...
I still remember the moment I stepped into Damascus's Old City at dawn, the call to prayer echoing off stone walls that have witnessed over 11,000 years of continuous human habitation. The scent of fr...
I've always believed that second cities hold the true soul of a country. They're where authenticity thrives without the spotlight pressure of being a capital. Kaunas, Lithuania's second-largest city,...
Let me tell you something about Lithuanian port cities – they're Europe's best-kept secrets, and Klaipeda might just be the crown jewel. When a digital marketing gig for a craft brewery collaboration...
As someone who's been visiting Bangkok regularly for over a decade, I've watched countless solo travelers navigate this magnificent chaos with varying degrees of success. While I'm not a woman myself,...
The first time I made the journey from Paris to Versailles, I nearly missed my palace entry time because I'd underestimated the transportation logistics. That was 15 years and countless France trips a...
The first time I heard about Abéché, it wasn't from a glossy travel magazine or a viral Instagram post. It was from an elderly Chadian man I met at a craft beer festival in Portland who noticed my int...