Three seagulls skimming the ocean’s waves, kelp forests swaying below—when life was feeling like it was going by too fast, taking an 11-hour train ride up the coast was exactly what I needed: slow. Everything was in bloom en route to San Francisco. Hills filled to...
Billowing grasslands across volcanic mountains towering at 3000+ meters and no humans in sight, we only came across a broken off sole of a Basotho gum boot in our two days in the Berg. These are the Dragon’s Mountains or Drakensberg. It was vigorously bumpy ride...
I was waiting in the car for what felt like forever in the Kentucky Fried Chicken in Port St. Johns, Eastern Cape, South Africa. My friend ran in to grab some snacks to munch on during our hike. It was the end of an eight-hour...
I’m spending the next two months in Durban, South Africa interning for a small investigative environmental journalism nonprofit called Oxpeckers. It’s really a perfect internship for me in so many ways. Last year, I was scouring through all the different journalism NGOs in the Global Investigative Journalism...
I complimented her on her hat, in which she replied that she crocheted it herself. In the parking lot, as we said goodbye, she gifted me that hat. “It might be a bit big for you because I crocheted it for my big head, but I...
In the quiet afternoon of rural Hubei, China, the pig let out a solid minute of blood curdling screams. When it finally quieted down, the butcher—with help from my cousins and uncles—held the pig up by its hind legs and tipped it down toward a...