Thrilled to contribute to Condé Nast Traveler's Breaking Bread collection of stories alongside Nneka M. Okona 🇳🇬, Cathy Erway 陳凱琳, Vidya Balachander, Yulia Denisyuk | Travel Journalist, Erika Rae Owen, Rebecca Hall, and Rafael Tonon. cntraveler.com/story/breaking…

How to explore the vast territory of #Kazakhstan? Photographer Yulia Denisyuk | Travel Journalist went on a road trip🚗 herself to discover how endless steppes and rugged #mountains tell the nation's story BBC Travel bbc.com/travel/article…

This June, I spent 3 magnificent days at Hotelito, a new addition to The Modern Utopian Society of Adventurers by Mexican architect Andrés Saavedra & Canadian entrepreneur Tara Medina. That story from Guerrero, Mexico is live now on RobbReport robbreport.com/travel/luxury-…

How meta is this? Meta cancelled the call they reached out to me for in the first place because of my 🍉 content.

My #documentary just won a Gold Telly Award, competing against 13,000 entries to join the ranks of @adobe, Netflix, @natgeo, and other winners. Why it’s important ⬇️ Watch the 5-minute film here: youtu.be/CIP0hlHQx1w See all winners: tellyawards.com/winners/ #palestine

Enheduanna was a Sumerian priestess who, some scholars believe, was the world’s first author — 1,500 years before Homer. Why is this noteworthy today? 1) she was from the #MiddleEast 2) #patriarchy. Get more in my latest #newsletter: goingplaces.substack.com #ehneduanna

I was invited to speak about #Jordan on Sydney’s largest radio station, 2GB Sydney, last night. I covered must-see places in Jordan, what keeps me coming back, and why people should travel there this year. Check out my interview below. #radio #travelmedia omny.fm/shows/2gb-afte…

People say we are naive to believe in peace. Naive are those who believe bombs and war will bring us safety. מעוז معوز Maoz

Book query — done! ✅ Please send good energy my way for amazing agents! Shout out to Beth Santos for encouraging me to bring my book idea to life. Everyone needs a friend like this in their lives! #bookquery #bookjourney #travelmedia

For a project I'm working on, I'm looking for stories of people who have chosen love (versus fear or hate) in the unlikeliest of circumstances. This is intentionally a pretty broad definition. If you know of such stories anywhere in the world, send me a DM! #journorequest

Saturday was World Indigenous Peoples Day, but worldwide, Indigenous rights are under attack. I'm a product of this. Chuvash on my mother's side, I neither speak Chuvash nor know its rich traditions. How my family story connects to this struggle: goingplacesmedia.com/three-suns-in-…

Hunting for @cntraveler's latest issue with my Okinawa story in it has made me think about our larger media landscape. Is print dead? Yes. But maybe it is also keeping us alive. Just how I arrived at that conclusion: in the latest newsletter ⬇️ goingplacesmedia.com/print-is-dead/

I started Going Places to cultivate hope through stories of people and places that resist the oppressive systems we live in. Today, we're launching a new series to deliver on this mission. Meet a handpoke tattoo artist who's raised over $15K for Gaza. goingplacesmedia.com/meet-the-artis…