Entry Zero: A Brief Introduction to Your Host
I don’t travel to escape my life. I travel because every now and then, it feels healthy to get dropped somewhere unfamiliar, eat something I can’t pronounce, misunderstand a bus schedule, and be reminded that my worldview is not, in fact, the source of truth for the entire planet. So, welcome to The World Rolodex. It's my idea of a travel blog, my digital card catalog of places worth remembering, and hopefully, a place where you’ll find a few reasons to care about corners of the world you may not have thought much about yet. To begin, I should probably establish some travel credentials before asking you to follow me into street markets, mountain hikes, backroads, and cigar shops. I’m 26 years old, and I’ve traveled pretty extensively in my short time on this rock hurling through space. I’ve road-tripped through 42 of the lower 48 states in the U.S., and in the last two years, my spouse and I have starte...