Where this road
is heading.

Travel is, at its core, a deeply personal act — going where you want, when you want. But the ability to travel at all exists because of the countries that welcome us, and the people across history who built the roads beneath our feet. That's why I carry gratitude with me wherever I go. Not as a tourist passing through, but as someone who wants to leave something positive behind — in the places, and in the people.

Going to more than a hundred countries was never really about the number. It's not a scoreboard I'm trying to fill in.

It's about what actually changes the moment you cross a border. The language shifts. The food shifts. The history sitting underneath everyday life shifts. No two countries carry the same culture or the same past, and that's exactly what keeps pulling me forward — the sense that the world is wider than any single place could ever show me, and I want to keep circling through as much of it as I can.

This is the outward motion underneath the way I want to live: always pointed toward the next place I don't yet understand, treating the road itself as part of the work — not just the distance between one story and the next.

The first vision is intentionally broad — a shift in perspective that comes from moving through as many different places as I can. But broad has its limits. What I actually love most is stepping into what I don't yet know, putting a foot into a world I've never touched. Even inside a single country, one ethnic group or tribe can hold a worldview completely different from the one next door.

So alongside going wide, I want to go deep: spending real time with local ethnic groups and tribes, not just passing through but staying long enough to actually be let in. I mean that literally — eating what they eat, dancing what they dance, living for however many days inside a rhythm that isn't mine, long enough to notice what only shows itself once you've stopped being a guest.

Whatever I notice there, whatever quietly shifts in me, I want to shape into something lasting — a magazine built entirely around ethnic culture: the lifestyles, the food, the customs, the small realizations that only surface once you've actually lived inside them for a while.

Alongside all of this, I want to keep making books.

My first, The Fate of Knot, was written before any of this traveling began — a novelized account of the mindset I carried before I ever left, the inner landscape that eventually pulled me out onto the road in the first place.

What comes next is different. I want the following books to come out of what the traveling itself has actually given me, rather than what I believed before I left it. I don't know yet exactly what shape that takes. I just know I want to keep making them.