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Fatima A.Questions No One Properly Answered When I Started Learning Arabic
Yesterday, during a meeting interpretation, the client heard my Arabic accent and asked, "Where did you learn?" I laughed and answered, "In the back seat of a…
Khalid Al-MansooriWhat a travel sketchbook actually goes through before it hits Instagram
Last month, I opened my sketchbook in an alley in Kadıköy, Istanbul, and the wind knocked over my coffee. It was Turkish coffee, not an Americano, so it was ev…
Jake R.How to Get from San Diego to Joshua Tree by Bus and on Foot
4:50 a.m. I was sitting on a bench at the 12th & Imperial Transit Center in downtown San Diego, tightening the straps on my backpack. It was still dark, and th…
Arjun FernandesThe reality of my moodboard work before a restaurant rebranding
One Friday night last month, I was eating pasta at an Italian restaurant in West Queen West, Toronto, when I found myself staring at the menu for a long time.…
Sophia W.Old Postcards and San Diego Redrawn by AI: What Each Captures and What Each Misses
Every time I open my desk drawer, a bundle of faded postcards catches my eye. Printed sometime between the 1950s and 1970s, most of them were picked up for les…
Yacht Autopilot AI Still Needs an Anxious Human
It was three in the morning, crossing the Bay of Biscay, and I was on watch. The waves were relatively calm at just over two metres, and the autopilot system w…
Crossing Mindanao: Why Night Buses Beat Budget Airlines
At 3 a.m., I opened my eyes on the bus to General Santos. Through the window, the moon was hanging over a mountain ridge, and my neck was stiff from the air co…
Hot Springs I've Visited in Hokkaido, Ranked by a Tour Guide Who Can't Sit Still
On a February night with a blizzard raging, the moment I finally sank into the outdoor bath at Noboribetsu, I realised I'd left my towel back in the changing r…
9 Street Food Spots Found in Hidden Caribbean Ports, Honestly Reviewed by Crew
When the ship docks and all the passengers head ashore, the crew gets a short and precious window of time. Most of my colleagues grab beers at a bar near the p…
Award Travel Points: Beginner Questions Answered by a Hotel Manager
Standing behind the front desk, you hear the same questions over and over. "Can I really get a free stay with points?" "Which program should I sign up for?" Ev…
Three AI Essay Feedback Tools: My Honest Review After a Semester
At the end of last semester, I let out a sigh as I set down a stack of Bumi Manusia essays submitted by thirty-two 11th-grade students on my desk. It's a scene…
Benji Rogers5 Days on the Kumano Kodo, Walking with a Broken Tripod and a Sketchbook
When I missed the bus at Tanabe Station, I had a feeling it set the tone for the entire trip. The spreadsheet I'd made before leaving had bus times, accommodat…
Southeast Asia Bus Booking Online: Questions I Struggled With as a First-Timer
I once spent a good 30 minutes staring at my phone at the bookshop counter, trying to book a bus from Chiang Mai to Luang Prabang. A customer asked, "What are…
Caleb PetersonTo the tourists who don't look up at Toronto's gargoyles
During a tour last week, a couple was taking a selfie in front of Old City Hall. They were tilting their phone this way and that, trying to get the clock tower…
Side by side comparison: an afternoon in Utrecht by bus vs. an AI-planned walk
Yesterday morning, a crumpled OV-chipkaart bus route map and an AI-generated walking route on my laptop screen sat side by side on the table at my accommodatio…
Before the weekend Avec shoot, here's a look inside my camera bag
On Friday nights, I have a habit of spreading all my gear out on the living room floor. Not the sleeping bag, not the tripod—just the time spent narrowing thin…
AI-Generated Deep Sea Landscapes: Beginner Questions From Someone Who Sails Over Them
Last month, I was standing the night watch in the waters south of Crete. On the sea above depths exceeding 2,000 metres, if you turn off the deck lights, you c…
Thomas BellA week tracking lichen recovery on the Lido Trail, late September
Monday, September 22, 6:30 a.m. When I unzipped the tent, the first thing I noticed was the pale-green foliose lichen spreading over the sugar maple trunks, st…
When a guest got locked out three times in the same night, I learned something about patience
At 2:17 a.m., the front desk phone rang. The reason I remember the exact time is that just moments before, I'd taken a sip of the cold tea sitting next to my m…
Leo MartinezMistakes I made designing mobile UX on unstable Wi-Fi across three countries
When my Figma file failed to sync for the third time at a coworking space in Mexico City, I sat staring at my laptop screen for a long while. Two in the aftern…
