Dear Diederek Thank you for loaning us your bucket-of-bolts rooftop tent 4wd. We’ve left the driveshaft on the side of the road. Here are the…
South Africa. A country of luxury safari resorts and Apartheid. Of good wine and water shortages. Of huge wealth disparity and Nobel Prize winners. And…
People travel for different reasons. Recreation, junket, mental health. And many trips are shaped by certain frameworks that guide or sustain a certain version of…
It was 12:30am and I was keeled over the toilet of an airborne plane, throwing up the half-digested Red Rooster chips I’d forced myself to…
At a family dinner in Norway, just hours before I was about to leave everything I knew behind and get on a plane to Tanzania,…
There’s a fantastic idiom in Spanish used to express exasperation, employed mainly by women: No tengo el coño para farolillos. In English: “I don’t have…
“The trip was so inspiring, you know? Like, I really made a difference. I just feel so humbled too, because they had nothing, but they…
Authors Note: I’ve done many stupid white-girl things in my 25 years, and often acted out on my privilege. Often out of fear and often…
Get There: Taghazout Centre, 9 behind West coast restaurant on the left، Cost: 3080MAD for an all-inclusive week’s package; 133MAD for a night’s bed and…
Ah, Robert Mugabe, the president of Zimbabwe, notorious as they come. Doesn’t his very name make you think of political unrest, mob violence and, generally,…
Monday, 19 October 2015, 7:46am. I’m woken by my phone alarm. I pick it up and, through gluey sleep-eyes, read: “It has been decided to…
It was when he mentioned the German girls that I made my decision. I had been in Tanzania for about three weeks and I had…
