Portraits of travel from around the world

It was women who led me to travel.

First Sophie stayed on a kibbutz for a summer and then traveled to Jordan and around. But once Bertie Tomashevsky returned from Thailand, she showed me photos of 15 months of travel through Southeast Asia, China, and Japan, and the world really opened up.

Aim high, they said.

Everyone else was telling me, No!

Today’s Posting

じゅうはち. One Night in Shibuya

The countdown had begun; music span from the speakers, clubbers jumped up, arms in the air, shouted each number, thirty-nine, thirty-eight, thirty-seven, music beating each second with its rhythm. Alone in a corner, slumped against the wall, thinking, I was trying to remember the year that was nearly over. How apt it was to be single, now, just as I had been when it had begun.