I was born in the late 80s, in a country that doesn’t exist anymore. Technically, I didn’t move anywhere — the country moved around me. My first travel experience was crossing a border that used to not exist and staying exactly where I was. I still find that funny.
I’m not a professional traveler. I have an ordinary job, ordinary responsibilities, and I plan trips around normal life. I don’t travel full-time, I don’t optimize my days for content, and I don’t wake up at sunrise unless I really have to.
I never quite understood why I like hiking, traveling, climbing mountains. Sometimes it’s just nice to move from one place to another. Sometimes I pick a destination because there’s an animal my SO really wants to see. Sometimes it’s because a friend lives there. Sometimes it’s just to break up the routine. But most of all, it’s because — why not. Or as George Mallory said when asked why he wanted to climb Mount Everest: “Because it’s there.” I would add: it’s there, and I want to see it.
Over more than 30 years of moving through airports, cities, mountains, and places I can’t always pronounce correctly, I’ve collected small observations that rarely make it into travel guides. You will walk more than you expect. Airports feel strange for a reason. Traveling with kids is not heroic. The obvious advice is often the most useful.
This blog is simply a new hobby — a way to make myself write. I’m not trying to turn this into a business. There are no affiliate links, no sponsorships, and no hidden financial motives. If anything ever changes, I’ll say so. For now, it’s just writing.
Everything here is written by me. AI helps me correct my English, because it isn’t my first language. The opinions, mistakes, and questionable conclusions are entirely human. I don’t take many photos and I’m not very good at it anyway, so sometimes you’ll see stock images, sometimes photos from friends, sometimes something generated. Travel is not a photography competition for me. It’s just life happening somewhere else.
If you need to get in touch, here is my email:
randomtraveladvice(at)gmail.com
I can’t promise I’ll respond, but I will probably read it.