A man sitting on a patterned red cushion on the floor, looking through binoculars at the ancient rock-carved city of Petra, Jordan, which is partially visible in the canyon wall.

Field Notes

Stories, lessons, and reflections from destinations across the globe.

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Man walking in a historic town square with a church and colorful building with balconies in the background.

Assumptions, Rearranged

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.

This isn't a "top 10 things to do" kind of blog. Every post here pairs a real trip with the history and culture behind it, so you leave knowing not just what to eat and where to stand for the photo, but why the place is the way it is. Expect food tours (there's always a food tour), a fair amount of walking, and the occasional questionable decision involving ants or white water. Scroll down for the blog, the photo gallery, and more on why I do this in the first place.

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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.

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A white vehicle driving on a dirt road with large red rock formations in the background, captured from the inside of another vehicle through the side mirror.