"see the open mouth of my suitcase saying 'leave this place'"

- Dave Pirner 'Without A Trace'

What’s going on here?

This is a totally honest travel blog. No shiny influencing*, no genAI, just a guy seeing the world a day at a time and trying to make sense of it all. There will be cynicism, sarcasm, attempts at understanding, and occasional while male English-speaking privilege, though hopefully noted at the time. I do try not to be that arsehole.

See the tag cloud below for an idea of what I do and see on my travels, and what I remember enough of to write about after.

If you read this and like it, that’s swell.

*If you read any of these posts and then decide you’d like to shower me in thousands of dollars to go somewhere and write about it just like I do about anywhere, I’m happy to talk.

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