Postcards · September 26, 2025

The Hood River Fruit Loop sounds like a tourist attraction invented by a crack marketing team—and it was. But following its winding roads with friends turned into something much better, with cider flights, goats, lavender, pie, and one wonderfully unproductive fall day in Oregon.

Postcards · March 14, 2025

We signed up for a small group tour to Celestún mostly because the timing worked and the weather looked decent. Also, I was promised flamingos…

Postcards · August 27, 2024

I signed up for a nighttime spider safari in Cairns despite being thoroughly creeped out by spiders. Then I accidentally photographed 200 perfect images of darkness and had to go back. The second trip revealed an astonishing hidden world of spiders, ants, and other rainforest oddities—and left me permanently suspicious of leaf litter.