
To the person I was before I started the three-year journey around the world.
Dear Me, You are now in Essaouira, Morocco, after traveling 1,086 days around the world. In ten days, you will
Travel stories from the road - some funny, some heartwarming, some scary, but all true.

Dear Me, You are now in Essaouira, Morocco, after traveling 1,086 days around the world. In ten days, you will

We met in April 2025, when I stayed at your beautiful cabin in Underberg. I was just beginning my journey down the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal, traveling from Durban to Ngcizela, a village in the Transkei where I was set to

In the chaotic, humid buzz of the Chiang Mai night markets, one cold December evening in 2023, I met Sylvia.

In April 2025, I traveled to a remote part of South Africa to volunteer at a school. I expected to

He was lying next to me, deep asleep. I did not understand how he could drift off so easily. We

It was the third time that we met again. Three times in six years. The first was in December 2019

After a few weeks of traveling in the big cities of Japan like Tokyo and Kyoto, I decided to go

Dear Stranger, We met briefly at the Osaka train station in May 2023. I had just started my three-year journey

Dear Momodu, I met you on the street outside the medina—the old walled part of town—in Essaouira, Morocco, on December

I was hiking solo on the Great Wall of China on a wintry December morning in 2023. I decided to