HeyJaredBetween the Dots
Weaving a route from Inverness to Singapore overland - one questionable decision at a time. Sleeper Trains, chaotic borders, and markets at 5 am. Optimistic fatalism with a sharp edge, it's gritty, unfiltered and not in most guidebooks.
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Biang Biang or Thwack Thwack (opens the original)
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The city had a hum that bordered on manic. The streets were heaving. People. Scooters weaving in and out. Horns constantly beeping. Vendors spilling onto the footpath. The high pitched chirps of ‘lucky’ crickets cut through the din, and songs could occasionally be heard coming from the birdcages that dangled precariously from the tapestry of wires overhead. The noise of the Muslim Quarter flowed and merged like streams feeding into a river of sound that washed over me. Dunking me again and again
Remebering to Look Up (opens the original)
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Kia ora,While I like to write about the places I go, I also use photography as a way of recording and sharing my visual experiences. As Substack is known primeraly as a writing platform, I was a little hesistant about posting the first anthology of images - Kicking Stones and Finding…. Even though it was more images than text, the post seemed to encouraged conversation - which is what I think we all want our work to do. So this is another image heavy post. If you can’t view it all, Substack reco
Unpredictable Borders (opens the original)
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Kia ora, This is more of a compelation than a single post. It covers borders across multiple legs. If you are interested in the full posts (where they exist) feel free to click the links. If you’d like to hear more about any of the other crossings leave a comment and I will add them to my list of places to write about. Some borders are mundane; you hand over your documents looking as innocent and friendly as possible with that air of “please let me into your country, I know sweat is dripping dow
One Square Block (opens the original)
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Leg 6, Chengdu, China - 2026Kia ora, Our Chengdu stop turned out to be very different to how I imagined it. <img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1456" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RUva!,w_14
Gems From The Stack #7 (opens the original)
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Hoki mai anō and welcome back to another Gems From The Stack.This is a pretty eclectic selection of posts, but they have one thing in common - they all really got me thinking, and that’s worth sharing. <img alt="" class="sizing-norm
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