About Travels with Jeremy

I climb over walls to stand on 4,000-year-old graves in Bahrain. I float in salt lakes in Ethiopia until the crystals shred my legs. I eat camel in Oman and get lectured about durian on the Singapore metro. Then I come home and try to explain what I saw.

This is a travel writing newsletter. Not tips. Not itineraries. Not “10 Best Cafés in Lisbon.” Each essay drops you into a place and wanders around long enough to ask why it looks the way it does — who built it, who got displaced, what’s buried underneath the strip mall.

What you get

Every essay tries to do three things:

It puts you somewhere. You’ll feel the salt bite into your palms at Lake Karum, hear the horns on King Fahd Highway on a Thursday night, see the goats refusing to move in an Omani canyon.

It digs into the history. I want to know how places became what they are. Why Bahrain has 80,000 burial mounds in its suburbs. How Oman went from ten kilometers of paved road to a modern state in a single generation. What Singapore traded for its zero-crime, zero-litter prosperity.

Who this is for

You’re curious about the world beyond the tourist trail but tired of either clickbait or college theses.

About me

I’m Jeremy. I grew up in the San Fernando Valley, studied history at UCLA, spent thirty years in corporate California, and stopped working in 2025 to travel and write full-time. I hike the Santa Monica Mountains most weeks that I’m home, keep field journals of the plants and birds I find, and plan my next trip.

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