SLAV travel

EST. 2014 · A LIVING LEDGER · VOL. 39

spring edition · the sketchbook

field notes from the long way around

Thirty-nine stamps,
one stubborn curiosity .

I don't travel for the photo wall. I travel for border-town breakfasts, the bus driver who knows a shortcut, the printed map a stranger drew on a napkin. This page is the napkin. Pages get added when the wheels touch ground.

open the ledger ✦ rsvp · the 40th destination

← cessna-ish, drawn from memory
(don't ask me about the wing)

↙ this is roughly
where the kid
kicked the seat

39

countries · stamped

— last one: romania

147

flights · counted

— rough count, lost a notebook in lisbon

2

missed connections · survived

— prague is still my villain origin story

∞

napkin maps · collected

— framing the best ones, eventually

01 chapters in the works

spring 2026

The slow road through the balkans.

Six borders, one car older than me, a glove box of receipts and one good plum brandy.

summer 2026

Cyprus, again — and on purpose.

Returning to the island that keeps pulling me back. Same coastline, different questions: which village does mezze right, and is the sea still the same temperature in september?

autumn 2026

Portugal & Madeira — the long way down.

Lisbon to the cliffs of Madeira. Pastel de nata audits, levada walks, and a very serious investigation into which miradouro has the best sunset.

soon ™

The 40th, told in letters.

One country I haven't picked yet. You'll hear it in installments, from the road, in handwriting.

02 the ledger · 39 entries

— roughly chronological. the first one was a long time ago.

  1. 01 Russia
  2. 02 Ukraine
  3. 03 Georgia
  4. 04 Germany
  5. 05 France
  6. 06 Italy
  7. 07 Spain
  8. 08 Czech Republic
  9. 09 Austria
  10. 10 Hungary
  11. 11 Slovakia
  12. 12 Slovenia
  13. 13 Croatia
  14. 14 Bosnia & Herzegovina
  15. 15 Montenegro
  16. 16 Albania
  17. 17 Greece
  18. 18 Bulgaria
  19. 19 Romania
  20. 20 Lithuania
  21. 21 Netherlands
  22. 22 Belgium
  23. 23 Luxembourg
  24. 24 Switzerland
  25. 25 Liechtenstein
  26. 26 Andorra
  27. 27 Monaco
  28. 28 San Marino
  29. 29 Vatican City
  30. 30 Malta
  31. 31 Cyprus
  32. 32 Denmark
  33. 33 Lebanon
  34. 34 Qatar
  35. 35 United Arab Emirates
  36. 36 United States
  37. 37 Malaysia
  38. 38 Thailand
  39. 39 Singapore
checked baggage delayed · twice passport · vol II window seat

The 40th is being
drafted in pencil.

subscribe nowhere. just check back when the kettle whines.