
Why you should go to weird places
Travel is a positive sum game. One week in the right place will take up more space in your heart and memory than a month in your "normal life" -- whatever normal life even is, anyway.
Jackson Greathouse Fall
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Travel is a positive sum game. One week in the right place will take up more space in your heart and memory than a month in your "normal life" -- whatever normal life even is, anyway.

I went to Tangier to break myself out of a loop. Now you're coming with me! Welcome to Camp Spartel.

especially if it's hard and it sucks

The men’s changing room at Gold’s Gym in Maadi has all your standard fixtures: cubbies with programmable locks, hot showers, a sauna, and prayer mats.

The Strait of Hormuz is shut down and I'm feeling it in my morning latté.

“If I could go anywhere”, Abdou told me, “I would go to Malaysia”

I should’ve brought more food to Iftar, but I didn’t even realize I was going to iftar.

There is only you, and the bowl of noodles in front of you, and you are sitting next to forty-five million other people facing squarely, unflinchingly forward.

Because I'll take exploring a new city over an afternoon spent twiddling my thumbs in an international terminal any day!

Part two in an accidental series on Parisian Nightlife. Plus, some poetry! Wherelse: the Living Guide to Living Good