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The Journal.
Travel essays, practical field notes and personal stories. The entire original Wander+Lost Noire archive now lives here.
One Night in Naija
A 24-hour layover became a five-hour immigration stalemate—and a lesson I understood differently years later.
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Solo Traveler Blues
On loneliness, independence and refusing to wait for someone else’s schedule to live your life.
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Happily Ever Ghana
Sometimes the frog doesn’t become the prince. Sometimes he points you toward the life you were meant to find.
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My Grandmother, Nicole.
On grief, mental health, and the beautiful life I feel obligated to keep choosing.
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Travel Essentials: Safety Edition
Door alarms, carbon-monoxide detectors and a few other items that earn their space in my luggage.
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Malaria Before Christmas
How malaria almost ruined my Detty December—and the people who got me back on my feet.
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Who’s a Peace Corps Volunteer Anyways?
What a Peace Corps Volunteer looks like depends on who gets to imagine the picture.
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Confessions of an Evacuated Returned Peace Corps Volunteer
On a Peace Corps service that ended abruptly—and why, eventually, it felt like it ended right on time.
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Slow Traveling, Slow Living
What slow travel means in practice—and why quality over quantity changed the way I move.
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24-Hours in Costa Rica
A compact San José itinerary built from one slightly chaotic, very short visit.
Read storyEmbracing Responsible Nomadism
Six ways to move through host communities with more intention and less extraction.
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Digital Nomadism
On freedom, routines, tradeoffs and building a life that can move without coming apart.
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