About the journal
A travel publication with a memory.
Wander+Lost Noire began as a place to write about travel—and, occasionally, the entirely unrelated things that travel has a way of bringing to the surface.
The person behind it
I’m a Haitian-American traveler, Returned Peace Corps Volunteer and longtime believer that the “and” will set us free.
As an undergrad, I studied abroad at the University of Ghana. That adventure inspired me to return to Ghana as a Peace Corps Volunteer. Although my service was cut short by the global evacuation in 2020, living and working abroad became the catalyst for the travel, writing and digital-nomad years that followed.
This archive holds all of it: the gorgeous places, logistical messes, questions about identity and privilege, solo-travel loneliness, family memories, Peace Corps stories and the jokes I apparently needed to make while processing all of the above.
Some things have not changed. I still don’t have a plan for a zombie apocalypse because I do not want to survive a zombie apocalypse. I’m still famously camera-shy. And Maia the Shih Tzu remains an elite travel companion.
Read the original name noteThe point of view
To wander is one thing. To pay attention is another.
This is not a site about collecting destinations. It is about what happens while moving through them—and what follows you home.
Blackness is part of the lens, not a content category that needs to announce itself on every page. Culture matters. Context matters. So do beauty, absurdity, food, logistics and a good story.