The map, annotated

Places.

Not a country-counting exercise. A way into the archive through the places that gave the stories somewhere to happen.

Ghana

The place that changed the plot. Study abroad, Peace Corps, grief, celebration and the stories that still live there.

A single night in Abuja. A missing visa. A passport lesson that got clearer with time.

Where slow travel and the digital-nomad experiment started to become a life instead of an itinerary.

A solo trip that made loneliness impossible to ignore—and eventually made traveling alone easier to understand.

One day, several museums, mixed restaurant luck and a San José itinerary for next time.

The Windy City, one missed flight and the origin story of a Global Entry convert.

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