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Field Notes

My ‘Field Notes’ is where my real-life travel stories live. I share lessons learned and perspectives gained from destinations across the globe. These are authentic blogs and written from my real world travel experiences.

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“You grow up assuming the way things work where you're from is just how things work everywhere, until you go somewhere else and realize how untrue that is. That moment — the one where your assumptions quietly rearrange themselves — is the whole reason I travel, and it's what this site is built around.”

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The Field Team

I can't be everywhere, so I built a team to cover the rest. Finn, Zara, Maya, and Diego are AI characters. Their trips are fictional, but the prices, tickets, and routes are researched and checked. Every post says which is which.

Meet the team
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Finn

Adventure

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Zara

Culture

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Maya

Solo Travel

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Diego

Budget

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A view of colorful European-style buildings beside a marina with boats, including a sailboat in the foreground and a larger boat named BADTEATRET docked nearby. The buildings have multiple stories with large windows and steep roofs, some with small balconies. The sky is cloudy.
A camel sitting on sandy ground with a colorful woven blanket on its back, in front of ancient pink stone architecture with columns and intricate carvings.
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A canal with boats, parked cars and bicycles lining the street, trees along the sidewalk, buildings in the background, and a person on a small boat holding a flag with text.
City skyline viewed through a chain-link fence on a bridge, with overcast sky.

Group Travel

We’re still exploring how to make group travel possible! Check back for more details soon!

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