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Go explore. The world is too large and too strange to stay in one place. These are the places I’ve been, and the memories I carried back.

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Special2023

Semester at Sea

A floating university sailing across oceans, ports, and perspectives. One ship. Multiple continents. Months at sea. One of the strangest and most formative chapters of the archive.

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North America · 2026

Puerto Rico

The realm's most recent stamp. San Juan's color-soaked streets, the fortress walls at dusk, and a bioluminescent bay that made everything feel slightly unreal.

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North America · 2024

Mexico

Something different. The colors, the chaos, the warmth. Mexico operates at a frequency that's hard to explain until you've been.

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Europe · 2023

Iceland

Reykjavik, where the voyage began or ended depending on how you look at it. Geothermal fog, northern light, and the strangest silence.

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Europe · 2023

Belgium

Antwerp and Brussels in early September. The beginning of the route into the continent: cobblestones, canals, and chocolate I didn't deserve.

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Europe · 2023

Portugal

Lisbon's tiled hillsides and sea-facing light. Pastéis de nata at a sidewalk table. Europe's quietly beautiful western edge.

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Europe · 2023

Spain

Three different Spanish cities across the voyage: Málaga on the southern coast, Las Palmas in the Canary Islands mid-Atlantic, and Barcelona to close it out.

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Europe · 2023

Malta

Valletta's limestone streets and the island of Gozo. A tiny country that feels ancient in every direction you turn.

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Europe · 2023

Greece

Piraeus, Athens' port and gateway. The Acropolis, the Aegean air, and the particular quality of Greek light at golden hour.

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Africa · 2023

Mauritius

An island adrift in the Indian Ocean: turquoise water, volcanic peaks, and the particular isolation of being surrounded by open sea in every direction.

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Africa · 2023

South Africa

Cape Town under Table Mountain. The southernmost point of the continent, where the Atlantic and Indian Oceans argue about where they begin.

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Asia · 2023

Malaysia

George Town's UNESCO street art and Penang's legendary food scene. Kuala Lumpur's skyline piercing the clouds.

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Asia · 2023

Vietnam

Ho Chi Minh City's energy, the limestone karsts of Ha Long Bay at dawn, and Hanoi's old quarter at night. Vietnam operates on its own frequency.

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Asia · 2023

Thailand

Bangkok at the end of December: temples, street food, the floating markets and the particular sensory overload of a city that doesn't stop.

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Asia · 2023

Japan

Organized chaos meets ancient stillness. From the neon sprawl of Tokyo to the quiet temples of Kyoto. Japan rewires your brain in the best way.

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Asia · 2023

China

An entry that needs its own chapter. Scale, contrast, history, and the strange feeling of being somewhere that contains multitudes you can't summarize.

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