From the road

Travel Stories

11 first-person dispatches. Long enough to tell the whole thing, short enough to read in one sitting.

Seeking the Extraordinary: Kenya as Home

Read as we go through the journey of Nidhi seeking Kenya as a home. The skies were overcast, the wind was slowly picking up speed and the ri...

Nidhi Ranjalkar · Jun 14, 2020

Viking Couchsurfer - Story of the man who's hosted over 500 people in his house

Couchsurfing stands to be the ultimate way to travel cheaply and start new friendships around the world. Despite living in a globalised, hea...

Natalia Ahmed · Mar 15, 2020

Around The World On A Vespa - Markus André Mayer

Unique travellers are taking the world by storm, with innovative ways of scouring the world, in attempts to cut down on their carbon footpri...

Natalia Ahmed · Mar 7, 2020

Learning to live in the wildernerness with Miriam Lancewood

Edited and Written by Natalia Nazeem based on conversation with Miriam Lancewood during her visit at the Emirates Literature Festival in Dub...

Mohamed Nawaz Muallim · Feb 25, 2020

Around the world on two wheels - Fredrika Ek's solo bike journey

The year has begun on an unstable note, with natural disasters or geopolitical tensions skyrocketing, placing millions of people in tenuous ...

Natalia Ahmed · Feb 16, 2020

Thor is challenging convention visiting every country in the world by land

Torbjørn C. Pedersen is on a journey to address environmental concerns, showing round-the-world trips are possible without boarding an airpl...

Natalia Ahmed · Feb 14, 2020

Travel With a Twist - Story of The Game Show Where Next

For most, the idea of traveling or going on a trip involves a) a long plane journey and b) a far-off, exotic land. However, travels don’t ha...

Natalia Ahmed · Feb 1, 2020

"Why I left" - The story of a Midwest American who explored the unsafe world

Hi! I’m Nate, and I’m from one of those forgotten states in the middle of America. It’s cozy here in Ohio. Nothing moves too fast, but it do...

Nathan Lieberman · Jan 25, 2020

How Shosho Chang is Bridging the Cultural Gap by Cycling the World

Shosho Chang, a YouTuber, traveller, photographer, a storyteller is cycling around continents, leaving some well-paid jobs to explore the wo...

Curated by Trift · Nov 18, 2019

Cycling from Europe to Asia for differently-abled children - Nón lá Project

Here's a couple who decided to cycle from Europe to Asia, 16,000km to raise funds for differently-abled children, supporting the NGO "Poussi...

Paridhi Joshi · Oct 17, 2019

Tom Fremantle, the man walking around the world for a cause

Meet Tom Fremantle, an author, and adventurer from England, who, now in his early 50s, decided he wanted to walk around the world. Tom has n...

Mohamed Nawaz Muallim · Aug 27, 2019