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Stories from four trips — mountains, coastlines, and flower fields.
29 May 2026
Up before the city, drifting over Canberra in a hot air balloon at sunrise. The Brindabellas glowed pink. Lake Burley Griffin caught the first light. From up there, everything felt impossibly still like the world hadn't decided to be loud yet.
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A small island group off the coast of Iloilo that most tourists skip. Turquoise shallows, rusting fishing boats, and empty sandbars at low tide.
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Three days in the Mountain Province hunting the morning cloud inversions that roll through the rice terraces of Sagada.
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