Stamps
0 of 14Tap a region when you have stood in it. The date is stamped for you.
Field notes
Write it while it is still true. You forget the small things first, and the small things are the trip.
From the road
Three entries that explain the whole idea.
None of these were on an itinerary. All three came from having enough days to let the trip go wrong.
Manali → Leh, India
The bus that broke down twice
Two days became four. The second breakdown put us in a village with one guesthouse and a wedding happening in it. Nobody who took the flight has that story.
Corcovado, Costa Rica
Forty minutes of nothing
Then a branch moved and a family of spider monkeys crossed above us for four full minutes. The waiting was the price of admission.
Erg Chigaga, Morocco
The moonless week
We moved the whole leg by nine days to catch it. Milky Way from horizon to horizon, and a guide who knew every star by a different name.