This leg of the journey took me north into the Italian Alps… away from cities, into valleys, cowbells, and the kind of air that smells cleaner than it has any right to. I arrived knowing two things for sure: I wanted good light, and I wanted to see a place I’d been chasing in my head for years.
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Good morning from Trento, Italy.
Today was the kind of day that starts with excitement and uncertainty in equal measure. My first rental car in Italy. A new piece of gear I didn’t fully understand yet. And a head full of ideas that hadn’t quite decided what they wanted to be.
What you’re about to read is less a travel story and more a day spent thinking out loud.
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Somewhere between breakfast, church bells, and the sound of a city waking up, I realized something. I hadn’t really “vlogged” much at all today. Instead, I’d been learning, listening, and occasionally getting lost — which, in a place like this, isn’t the worst thing.
Traverse Events in Trento, Italy – A Life Long Journey of Learning Read More »
Traverse isn’t really a conference in the traditional sense. It’s more like a series of conversations … workshops, discussions, and shared experiences centered around travel, storytelling, photography, video, and what it means to build something creative in this space.
I’ll be honest with you, walking into a room full of people you don’t know can be uncomfortable. Especially when you assume most of them are younger, further along, or more confident than you are. What surprised me almost immediately was how many people I met who were closer to my age … people who had gone through career changes, life shifts, or personal reinventions of their own.
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I’ve learned that some mornings on the road feel less like exploration and more like quiet confrontation. You wake up somewhere beautiful, make coffee that may or may not exist, and realize the view outside the window doesn’t automatically answer the questions you brought with you. Episode #3 of this journey lives squarely in that space.
Innsbruck Mornings, Trento Trains, and the Weight of Asking “What’s Next” Read More »
I’ve learned that some of the most revealing moments while traveling happen before most people are awake. Not because anything extraordinary is happening, but because nothing is demanding your attention yet. In 2019, my second morning in Zurich began exactly that way … too early, slightly under-caffeinated, and quietly grateful to be awake in a city that hadn’t fully turned itself on.
Zurich at 5:30 AM: When a City Belongs to No One Yet Read More »
I’ve learned that travel doesn’t always begin when you arrive somewhere. Sometimes it begins in transit, half awake, slightly disoriented, standing in the wrong elevator, already a little behind the rhythm of a place you haven’t yet learned how to move through. That’s how this trip to Europe started for me in 2019, landing in
Zurich, First Day: Learning the Pace Again Read More »
Over the next few weeks, I’ll be sharing a series of posts that revisit a trip I took through Europe in 2019 — a journey that began in Switzerland, crossed the Alps by train, and eventually led me to Northern Italy. At the time, I was filming daily travel vlogs, moving quickly, responding in the moment. What I didn’t realize then was how much of that experience would stay unfinished — not undocumented, but unreflected.
Looking Back to Move Forward Read More »
Ever since I stumbled upon the enchanting tales of Istanbul’s street cats, my heart has been set on a journey to this cross-continental city, where every corner tells a story and every cobblestone is a step back in time. I long to wander through its historic streets, to sit at a café sipping Turkish tea, and to meet the four-legged locals who roam with an air of ancient wisdom.
Dreaming of Istanbul: Enchanted by the City’s Feline Charm Read More »
I had a pretty cool evening wandering around this familiar city in what turned out to be uncharted territory for me! It’s easy to fall into the tourist trap and although there is usually a list of sorts of the “must see” spots in a city like London, the challenge is to veer off the beaten path, or at the very least, the familiar path you have trekked before, to find new locations as well as new vantage points for sites and scenes you have absorbed before.
