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My 50 Favorite Photos from a Year of Full-Time Travel

From May 2023 until May 2024, I traveled the world full-time.

I walked 500 miles across Spain and rode dozens of motorbikes in Vietnam. I saw wild elephants in Sri Lanka and castles in Romania. I ate countless bowls of cacio e pepe in Italy and dal makhani in India. I watched snow fall over lakeside towns in Austria and the sun set behind beaches in Thailand.

And I did my level best to capture it all through my trusty Fujifilm lenses. Between the people, the buildings, the colors, the cities, and the settings, I took tens of thousands of photos — honestly, several years later, I’m still editing. But I’m thrilled to have such thorough documentation of my experiences over that one incredible year!

These are my 50 favorite photos from my year of full-time travel.

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The People

A pilgrim lays down a stone at Cruz de Ferro.
A pilgrim lays a stone during a foggy sunrise at Cruz de Ferro on the Camino de Santiago.

A man waits on a boat at San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice (left); pilgrims walk the Camino de Santiago (right).

A monk carrying an umbrella walks past a temple.
A monk walks past a temple in Vientiane, Laos.
A couple kissing on top of a wall, with St. Peter's Basilica in the distance behind them.
A couple kissing in Rome’s Giardino degli Aranci, with St. Peter’s Basilica in the distance.

A fire-eating display during a cultural show in Kandy, Sri Lanka (left); a boy runs through Meayll Circle on the Isle of Man (right).

Gondoliers waiting for customers at a gondola station.
Gondoliers waiting for riders in Venice.
A man walking across the hexagonal columns at Giant’s Causeway in Northern Ireland.

The Buildings

Looking up toward Siena’s Torre del Mangia from the courtyard of the Palazzo Publicco (left); looking toward Pisa Cathedral and the Leaning Tower of Pisa from a window in the Pisa Baptistery (right).

Box seats at Teatro La Fenice in Venice.

A man walks through the cloister of Pamplona Cathedral (left); Romania’s Peles Castle on a foggy day (right).

Viewing Ireland’s Rock of Cashel through the nearby Hore Abbey (left); Saigon’s Cafe Apartment building (right).

Endless stripes inside Siena Cathedral.

Jaipur’s Hawa Mahal (left); viewing St. Peter’s Basilica through Rome’s Aventine Keyhole (right).

Close up of a white building with windows lined in red, orange, and yellow trim.
Colorful shutters at the Old Hill Street Police Station in Singapore.

The Colors

Red buildings line the water in Murano.
Buildings in Murano, Italy.
Rows of open, colorful paper umbrellas.
Paper umbrellas for sale in Luang Prabang, Laos.

A man standing in a fort in Madhogarh, India (left); a woman standing in Vietnam’s My Son Sanctuary (right).

Red lighthouse in front of seaside buildings in Piran.
A lighthouse in Piran, Slovenia.

Giving the peace sign over colorful stripes of fabric in India (left); the red and white designs on Colombo’s Jami Ul-Alfar Mosque (the Red Mosque) (right).

Rows of orange and blue striped umbrellas above beach chairs.
A beachgoer soaks up the sun by colorful umbrellas in Monterosso al Mare, Italy.

The Cities

London’s Electric Cinema (left); reflections in the window of a vaporetto stop in Venice (right).

The view of Venice’s Grand Canal from Ponte dell’Accademia.

Hanoi’s famous train street (left); a gondola glides into view in Venice (right).

Viewing Venice’s Santa Maria della Salute through a vaporetto stop (left); Madrid’s iconic Tio Pepe sign over Puerta del Sol (right).

Buildings reflecting in Florence‘s Arno River.

Swings at Vienna’s Prater amusement park (left); India’s Amer Stepwell (right).

People walk across a red bridge over a lake.
Hanoi’s Thê Húc Bridge.

The Settings

Bled Island and its church in the middle of a blue-green lake, as seen from above.
Slovenia’s Bled Island sitting in the midst of Lake Bled.
A red hot air balloon floats amongst karst formations.
A hot air balloon over Vang Vieng, Laos.
Guaita Tower and the rooftops of San Marino.
San Marino’s Guaita Tower.

A train crosses Nine Arch Bridge in Ella, Sri Lanka (left); karst formations in Vietnam’s Ha Long Bay (right).

A monkey walks along a rock. In the background, Sigiriya Rock rises out of the forest.
A monkey in front of Sigiriya Rock.
A small church perched over a lake.
The church of Saint John at Kaneo sitting at the edge of North Macedonia’s Lake Ohrid.

Viewing Hallstatt, Austria from above (left); a bee-eater bird in Sri Lanka (right).

Rolling hills of Tuscany in the early morning light.
Watching the sun rise over Tuscany from the walls of San Gimignano.
Stari Most in Mostar, Bosnia & Herzegovina.

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