We write travel notes for people who'd rather miss the bus.

How it started

We started in 2023 with one rule: write only about a place after spending at least four nights there. That ruled out airports, layovers, weekend trips with FOMO. It also ruled out 80% of the "travel content" we'd been reading. We thought we'd write twelve essays in a year. We wrote four. Each one was better for having taken its time.

What we believe

• The best meals are eaten in chairs that wobble.
• Buses tell better stories than business class.
• If a place has a "viewpoint", the real view is usually 50 metres behind it.
• Itineraries are guesses. Plans are negotiations.
• The local kirana shop owner is the most underrated travel resource.

The two of us

Ananya writes. Vikram photographs. We met on a delayed train to Madgaon in 2019 and have been planning the next trip ever since. Neither of us is a professional anything — we have day jobs, we run this on evenings and weekends, and we'd love to keep it that way.

"The point of travel isn't to come back with a story. It's to come back willing to listen better."

What we won't do

We won't take sponsored stays in exchange for coverage. We won't write "Top 5 hidden gems" listicles (a gem stops being hidden the second it gets a slot in a listicle). And we won't ever, ever, recommend a restaurant we haven't eaten at twice.