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Places that make strength feel useful.

A grounded home for travel notes, adventure photos, personal writing, and the lessons that come from stepping outside familiar environments.

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Jono Mitchell standing at a high mountain lake near Cusco
Featured journey

High Mountain Lakes of Cusco

Cold water, open air, and the kind of place where strength feels practical.

Panoramic sunset over the Pacific Ocean in Mazunte
Cusco, Peru

A bigger horizon for the travel section.

This kind of landscape says a lot without needing to push: altitude, water, quiet, and the simple usefulness of being able to move through the world.

Travel Journal

Notes from the road

Short reflections, photo stories, and location-specific writing from places that have shaped my sense of movement, health, and perspective.

Sunset waves along the Mazunte coast Coastal Notes

Mexico

Mazunte Sunsets

Slower coastal days, ocean swims, and the kind of sunset rhythm that makes Oaxaca feel easy to remember.

Golden Gate Bridge at sunset from the California coast Coast & City

California

California Coast

Bay Area walks, redwood days, ocean air, and the contrast between city edges and open coast.

Jono Mitchell wearing a cowboy hat on the beach in Isla Holbox, Mexico Island Notes

Isla Holbox, Mexico

Island Pace

Beach days, quiet water, and the relaxed pace that gives Holbox its own softer rhythm.

Travel Map

A clearer view of the journey.

Highlighted countries show the larger route at a glance. Hover or select a country for details, then follow the link into its notes further down the page.

Visited Lived
World map with country borders

United States

California Redwoods, the SF Bay Area, Willits, Atlanta, and Maryville.

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Mexico

Mexico City, Oaxaca, Chiapas, Yucatan, Quintana Roo, and the Pacific coast.

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Guatemala

Lake Atitlan, volcano views, and quieter days around the highland lake.

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Belize

Caye Caulker and the easy pace of a small Caribbean island.

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Costa Rica

The Caribbean coast, dense tropical nature, and time close to the water.

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Panama

A connecting chapter between Central and South America.

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Peru

Northern beaches, Cusco, and a longer chapter lived in the Sacred Valley.

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United Kingdom

London through architecture, walking, food, and city movement.

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Netherlands

Amsterdam, its canals, compact streets, and distinctive city rhythm.

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Italy

Milan through design, fashion, food, and northern Italian pace.

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Country borders based on Natural Earth data. Map artwork released under CC0.

Route Notes

Places to expand into stories next.

These grouped sections keep the page organized while the photo library and writing catch up with the map.

Mexico Route

Cities, coast, ruins, and island pace

Mexico has enough range to become its own travel thread, from big-city movement to beach towns, colonial streets, and jungle ruins.

Mexico City Oaxaca City Puerto Escondido Zipolite Mazunte San Cristobal Palenque Merida Valladolid Cancun Tulum Bacalar Isla Holbox
Europe City Notes

London, Amsterdam, Milan

These can become shorter city notes or visual entries that bring a different texture into the travel section: architecture, style, food, walking, and city rhythm.

London Amsterdam Milan
Places Lived

Homes, chapters, and base camps

The lived-country highlight gives context to the story behind the travel: places that shaped routines, identity, fitness, work, and perspective over time.

Atlanta Willits Maryville SF Bay Area Sacred Valley / Cusco
Central America & Caribbean

Lakes, islands, jungle, and coast

These stops connect volcanic highlands, Caribbean water, tropical coastlines, and the route south toward Peru.

Lake Atitlan, Guatemala Caye Caulker, Belize Costa Rica East Coast Panama
Visited Places

Places I've Carried With Me

Forests, lakes, coastlines, mountain towns, and Caribbean water that connect travel back to curiosity, health, perspective, and growth.

Tall redwood forest with light filtering through the trees
Forest

California Redwoods

Quiet scale, old trees, and the grounded feeling that comes from time outdoors.

Colorful colonial street scene in Mexico
Mexico

San Cristobal de las Casas

Color, culture, mountain air, and a softer town rhythm for personal notes.

Clear blue water and bright open sky
Lagoon

Lake Bacalar

Clear water, long horizons, and a slower blue rhythm that stays with you.

Sunset over the rocky coast in Mazunte, Oaxaca
Coast

Mazunte, Oaxaca

A calmer, less polished beach rhythm with cliffs, sunsets, and open Pacific water.

Sandy beach with clear blue water
Pacific

Northern Beaches of Peru

Mancora, Vichayito, Lobitos, and that warmer Pacific edge of Peru.

Jono Mitchell standing at a high mountain lake near Cusco
Peru

Cusco Mountain Lakes

Cold water, high altitude, and the kind of places that make a capable body feel useful.

Jono Mitchell standing beside a Sacred Valley waterfall
Peru

Sacred Valley Waterfalls

Water, moss, mountain trails, and a quieter side of adventure close to home.

Costa Rican jungle meeting turquoise coastline from above
Costa Rica

East Coast of Costa Rica

Dense green meeting Caribbean water: relaxed, alive, and adventurous.

Lake Atitlan with volcanoes and a wooden dock
Guatemala

Lake Atitlan

Still water, volcano views, and a quieter side of travel and reflection.

Jono Mitchell wearing a cowboy hat on the beach in Isla Holbox, Mexico
Mexico

Isla Holbox

Easy island pace, warm evenings, and the kind of beach time that makes everything slow down.