🧭 Introduction & Why Go I’m not going to pretend the trip out here was pleasant, because it wasn’t. What I can tell you is that it was worth every uncomfortable hour, and by the end I understood why everyone who’s been to Salar de Uyuni talks about it like it changed something in them….
🏰Introduction & Why Go I booked and canceled my ticket to Gdańsk more times than I’d like to admit. Work got in the way, then the weather forecast looked wrong, then the budget didn’t line up. For a while I wondered if this trip was ever going to happen. It finally did, in July, as…
I’ll admit it upfront: I never warmed up to egg coffee, though I’d been told it was the one thing you had to try in Hanoi. I ordered it anyway on my first evening, sitting a few feet from the train tracks, waiting for the train to rattle past between two buildings close enough to…
🐢 Introduction & Why Go By the last leg of the trip, after Ubud’s rice terraces and one too many temple queues, I wanted somewhere with nothing left to plan. The Gilis delivered exactly that — the trip exhaling. No cars, no scooters, no horns — just bicycles, horse carts, and water so clear you…
🌾 Introduction & Why Go By the time I left Kuta and Uluwatu behind, I was done with the ocean for a few days and ready for something greener. Seminyak gave me the polish — boutique hotels, a good breakfast spread, streets built for wandering between cafés. Ubud, an hour or so inland, gave me…
🌅 Introduction & Why Go Ten minutes outside the terminal in April, and South Bali had already made its point. That’s how the trip started: jet-lagged and sticky. That’s just how South Bali greets you — thick air, distant scooter horns, the smell of frangipani and exhaust in equal measure. My first real evening was…
